Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 11:40:33 -0800 From: Andy Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: David.E.Tweten@nasa.gov Cc: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ThinkPad Hibernation Message-ID: <20030109194033.D283582@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Message from Dave Tweten <tweten@nas.nasa.gov> of "Tue, 07 Jan 2003 20:33:51 PST." <4357.1042000431@gilmore.nas.nasa.gov>
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> Incidently, I overstated the Xserver hang. Ctrl-Alt-Fx switches the display > from a hung Xserver to a non-hung virtual terminal. Alt-F12 then switches > back to a non-hung Xserver. If a virtual terminal is active when the > hibernation starts there is no hang either. > > Now I just wish there were something I could put into rc.resume to make the > Xserver do whatever it does as a result of Ctrl-Alt-Fx, Alt-F12. <AOL> I had this for about 9 months on a laptop with an ATI chipset, bugged the hell out of me. It Just Worked one day after an XFree upgrade. </AOL> I submitted a patch (based on an idea from Tony Finch, IIRC) to conditionally hack a workaround for this into 'apm', see: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/28026 You could use that unchanged for -STABLE, or hack up a small local executable that did the vty switching for you and call it from rc.suspend/rc.resume. HTH. Cheers, AS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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