Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 12:33:44 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: Robert Withrow <bwithrow@nortelnetworks.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Closing laptop lid confuses X Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990331123021.2207A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <199903252329.SAA25764@tuva.engeast.baynetworks.com>
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On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Robert Withrow wrote: > On my Gateway Solo 9100 (with a trident chipset), running PAO 2.2.8, > when I close the lid and re-open it, the X11 display (XF86 3.3.3) > has disappeared. I've tried: > > - Switching VTs > - Building the kernel with the SYSCONS_VTY_RESUME option > - Killing and re-starting XDM > > Only the last option fixes the screen. > > If I am at the X11 vty, switching to standby mode doesn't cause > screen problems but suspending does. If I'm at a normal vty, > I can do either and X11 is fine when I switch back to the X11 vty. > > Anyone know of a fix? If not, should I go to the XFree people? Is > there an XFree-mobile list? I have a similar problem using XiG on an IBM 560E with the Trident chipset. Whenever the notebook suspends, if X is the active VT, then the display does not wake up again (although everything else is fine). If I switch to a VT after waking up and resuspend, it remembers to power up the display. I'm not sure if this is a bug in APM, or in the X server. This is actually much worse when the notebook isn't plugged in--if it's running off battery, and suspended while X was active, then I have to hard boot the machine. VTs work fine in either case. Since XFree86 provides extremely poor support for the Trident chipset (no 800x600xdecentnumberofcolors), I haven't tried XFree86 much. I'd really prefer to, as AccelX has a number of bugs in its X protocols support resulting in the X server crashing a bit too often for my liking (especially when I run KDE or xfig). XiG has also disclaimed any support for recent versions of FreeBSD, at least last time I contacted their technical support. Robert N Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: 03 01 DD 8E 15 67 48 73 25 6D 10 FC EC 68 C1 1C Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ Safeport Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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