Re: swsusp / 2.6.0-test1

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Mon Jul 21 2003 - 16:31:42 EST


Hi!

> >>swsusp is working fine, but mplayer
> >>in sdl and xv output mode displays a blank
> >>screen after a resume.
> >>
> >You probably need to write suspend/resume support for your card.
> >
>
> Just wondering what kind of support for suspend/resume is "enough", say
> for video cards? Surely not the pci configuration space, you need to
> restore video mode, color maps, gfx engine state etc etc...what about
> frame buffer contents on card? Probably yes. Sounds like a lot of code,
> and different thing for every possible video card. Is there some general
> guidance here? Is drivers/video soon bloating with tons of
> suspend/resume code? I hope I am wrong :)

I'm not sure if you are wrong. If you switch to non-graphics console,
that may save some code, but...

BTW vger.redhat.com, what is that?
                                                                Pavel

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