[patch] suspend-to-ram: update docs

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Oct 31 2005 - 17:51:06 EST


This adds few more working systems.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxxx>

--- a/Documentation/power/video.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/video.txt
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ boot video card. (Kernel usually does no
driver -- vesafb and vgacon are widely used).

This is not problem for swsusp, because during swsusp resume, BIOS is
-run normally so video card is normally initialized. S3 has absolutely
-no chance of working with SMP/HT. Be sure it to turn it off before
-testing (swsusp should work ok, OTOH).
+run normally so video card is normally initialized. It should not be
+problem for S1 standby, because hardware should retain its state over
+that.

There are a few types of systems where video works after S3 resume:

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ your video card (good luck getting docs
(proper X, knowing your hardware, not XF68_FBcon) might have better
chance of working.

-Table of known working systems:
+Table of known working notebooks:

Model hack (or "how to do it")
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Acer TM 242FX vbetool (6)
Acer TM C110 video_post (8)
Acer TM C300 vga=normal (only suspend on console, not in X), vbetool (6) or video_post (8)
Acer TM 4052LCi s3_bios (2)
-Acer TM 636Lci s3_bios vga=normal (2)
+Acer TM 636Lci s3_bios,s3_mode (4)
Acer TM 650 (Radeon M7) vga=normal plus boot-radeon (5) gets text console back
Acer TM 660 ??? (*)
Acer TM 800 vga=normal, X patches, see webpage (5) or vbetool (6)
@@ -137,6 +137,13 @@ Toshiba Satellite P10-554 s3_bios,
Toshiba M30 (2) xor X with nvidia driver using internal AGP
Uniwill 244IIO ??? (*)

+Known working desktop systems
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Mainboard Graphics card hack (or "how to do it")
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+Asus A7V8X nVidia RIVA TNT2 model 64 s3_bios,s3_mode (4)
+

(*) from http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HoaryPMResults, not sure
which options to use. If you know, please tell me.

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Thanks, Sharp!
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