[HEADSUP] amd64 suspend/resume code to be comitted

[Brandon Gooch]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Gustau Perez <gperez at entel.upc.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>> For now, it seems X is required. The "switch-to-VTY-and-back-again"
>> solution works for me:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/laptop/power-management.html
>>
>> In my /etc/rc.suspend:
>>
>> ...
>> /usr/sbin/vidcontrol -s 1 < /dev/console
>> ...
>>
>> In my /etc/rc.resume:
>>
>> ...
>> /usr/sbin/vidcontrol -s 9 < /dev/console
>> ...
>>
>> I've also seen various posts in forums and on mailing lists
>> about using the "vbetool" program (in ports), but I haven't messed
>> with it myself.
>>
>> See here for more detail on this issue (under "Low Priority Tasks"):
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/projects/acpi/#todo-list
>>
>> -Brandon
>>
>
>  Thank you,  I'll try it at home (leaving work in a few second ;)) However,
> what I cannot understand is why if_bge is giving me problems, while I've
> seen some successful reports of people with the same hard (at least
> supported by the same driver).
>
>  Greets,
>
>  Gus
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Well, I just went through a suspend/resume cycle on my notebook
without the 'vidcontrol'
statements in my /etc/rc.* (from Xorg) and my display lit right up! I
guess I no longer
require the VTY switch to save the video state as I once did...

-Brandon