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

On Thu, Jan 6, 2022, 9:35 AM Stefan Blachmann <sblachmann@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Absolutely agreed on need more docs and an update pass. I raised it as part
of this year's core team meeting with the foundation. Though this one issue
likely can be handled by a simple document PR.

Warner


> 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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