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Bug#565344: [xserver-xorg-video-radeon] Black screen after resume from suspend to disk/RAM



Am Freitag, den 15.01.2010, 17:32 +0100 schrieb Bruno Kleinert:
> Maybe there's something in the logs on my amd64/Radeon system. I'll look
> at these files tomorrow.
I had some annoying trouble to suspend the machine. To make things
short: For the whole weekend I only got two cycles of suspend -> resume,
as the box locks up when the system is snapshotted...

But I found out something interesting: I'm using GNOME as desktop
environment, so I'm also using gnome-screensaver. Quite funny: If I make
GNOME *not* start the gnome-screensaver, then, of course, the screen
doesn't get locked by the gnome-screensaver when the machine is
suspended and resumed. But then I get *no* black screen after the
resume, and also switching to a text console shows up text!

Maybe it's some crazy bullshit, but I have a guess where this could come
from: ;) gnome-screensaver fades the display to black when it gets
active, maybe this is done by manipulating color/contrast/whatever
settings (?). I guess so, because the text "snapshotting the system" at
the text console is often very dark and sometimes invisiable after
gnome-screensaver got active to lock the screen before the machine
starts the suspend procedure.
Now, if the machine gets resumed, maybe these color/contrast/whatever
settings don't get successfully restored or restored at all.

It's a stupid guess, but maybe it points someone into the right
correction what causes this regression bug. The bug appears since
xserver-xorg-core 2:1.7.4-1 and its dependencies is installed on that
system.

Btw.: My first attempt to downgrade mesa packages back to 7.6.1-1 did
not fix the bug as it did on my notebook. But let's better leave that
out to avoid confusion. The current workaround to avoid the black screen
after resume is to disable gnome-screensaver.

Do you have any hints where I should have a closer look at? I'd like to
have a look at these color/contrast/whatever settings of the X server
and/or the graphics hardware, to compare them before and after a resume
if they are changed. But I have no idea how to obtain these settings
from the X server. Do you know to I can access them?

Cheers - Fuddl

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