[clug-talk] Question about suspend, resume and display sleep

[Gustin Johnson]

Craig McLean wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I've managed to fix the display resume problem.  I've found that a lot of
> the documentation for the display drivers is contradictory.  The man page
> for the trident X driver suggests that driver supports the Cyberblade
> display driver in my Portege R100.  I switched from VESA to trident in my
> xorg.conf and now the screen blanks and resumes properly.
> 
> My next issue is that the laptop does not suspend properly.  It attempts to
> suspend but seems to get stuck somewhere.  I'm left with a blank display
> with a blinking cursor in the top left corner.  I can still ssh to the box.
> I can also bring X back by console switching (ctrl-fn-f7, ctrl-fn-f1).  It
> never did suspend though.  Any thoughts on where to look?
> 
/var/log/messages /var/log/syslog /var/log/kern.log to start.

As root what happens when do this:
echo -n mem /sys/power/state

> Everything is as described below except in my xorg.conf file I've replaced
> Driver "vesa" with Driver "trident".
> 
You may want to check out some or all of the following links.
http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/114220
http://www.linux.com/news/hardware/laptops/8253-how-to-suspend-and-hibernate-a-laptop-under-linux

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