Suspend2 and vesa-tng

[ajn131]

Hello,

I've been able to successfully install suspend2-sources, and suspend to ram and suspend2 disk seem to work, but I have a couple trivial issues with the splash/framebuffer. For some reason, suspend2-sources-2.6.20-r3 (tried 2.6.19-r3 too) do not seem to have the vesa-tng option in the kernel under device drivers --> framebuffer support --> vga framebuffer support. The only option there is vesafb, vesa-tng is not present. The problem is that the laptops native resolution is 1440x900 and vesafb driver only seems to support gensplash themes at 1024x768. When I suspend to ram or hibernate, the screen becomes garbled when resume is performed. I was hoping that matching the framebuffer resolution to the X's resolution would prevent the garbled text/images on resume and subsequent suspends between a reboot or cold boot.

kernel config section:

device drivers --> framebuffer support --> vga framebuffer support --> vesafb
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Secondly, when I suspend to disk, the laptop has to be manually powered off. Is there an option to power it down?

Thanks in advance.

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ajn131

[beatryder]

What kind of video card do you have? If you have an nvidia, then the highest resolution you can hope to get is 1024x768
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[Rikai]

Do you perchance have a 64-bit processor?

vesafb-tng is disabled by X86_64, for whatever reason. You might try manually applying the kernel patch, I think I might have gotten that to work once... but I'm not sure what the real consequences are.