Re: 5.9 points Re: 7.0 points 5.1 points Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas

Correct.
Only late in the discussion Warner mentioned that the kms drm drivers
need to be loaded.
So my request has became moot.

The drm kmod drivers usually are being associated as graphics drivers for xorg.
Thus it is not at all intuitive/obvious that these are also required
on console-only computers to make resuming succeed.

Given this, it is rather a *documentation* *issue*, as the necessity
to install/load the drm kmod drivers is *not* mentioned anywhere in
the documentation regarding suspend/resume, making users wonder why
resuming fails.


On 1/6/22, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@bec.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 11:22:39AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
>> Why bother. Load the kms drm drivers. The suspend/resume code is in those
>> drivers. They work console, X11 and wayland, more or less.  It's an
>> absolutely
>> insane idea to spend limited funds on the crazy ideas presented in this
>> thread.
>> They are known to be flakey, unreliable or technically just not possible.
>
> The main problem is that modern VGA devices often only have just enough
> VESA BIOS support to give Windows a generic framebuffer as fallback.
> Otherwise, I don't think it is as flakey. All that said, spending funds
> on it would certainly be misdirected.
>
> Joerg
>
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