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From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
To: "Dr. Gary E. RAFE" <drgerlists@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Working: Toshiba Sat Pro 6100 and NVIDIA legacy driver at
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Dr. Gary E. RAFE wrote:
[..]
 > ACPI suspend/resume works, albeit, not as expected.
 > My suspend script switches the VT to ttyv0 prior to suspend,
 > and have /etc/rc.resume switch back to the approriate VT
 > if X is running.
 > Upon ACPI resume, the text console is *not* visible.
 > The automatic VT switch in /etc/rc.resume, however,
 > brings the display back correctly, so this is a minor issue.
 > I did build an nvidia.ko kernal module with ACPI enabled
 > to see if this might have an affect on the resume behavior.
 > Using this kernel module, however, caused the ACPI suspend to fail (!).
 > So, I can live with a working, albeit, unexpected, suspend/resume.

Have you tried:

sysctl hw.syscons.sc_no_suspend_vtswitch=1

with and without your rc.suspend/resume hacks?

This is needed for working suspend/resume on my old Compaq 1500c (APM)
and somewhat newer Thinkpad T23 (ACPI).  Might be worth a try, anyway.

Cheers, Ian