11.0-RC2 suspend/resume on thinkpad x201 kills poweroff

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Sep 12 17:58:56 UTC 2016


On Monday, September 12, 2016 10:35:35 AM Philip Homburg wrote:
> In your letter dated Fri, 9 Sep 2016 07:51:35 -0700 you wrote:
> >is it too new to "kldload i915kms" ?
> 
> Yes, i915kms does the trick.
> 
> In X, suspend/resume works. On a console it requires a console switch
> go get screen output. It would be nice if the driver could do this
> automaticaly.
> 
> I guess now the question is where to document this. The handbook seems
> to be silent about this issue.

The console resume thing is a bug on all systems in vt(4).  With sc(4)
resume on console brings the screen back.  It seems that vt(4) needs
some sort of "repaint" call on resume.

-- 
John Baldwin


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