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 Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 5:56 am Post subject: framebuffer and suspend |
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its not a major bug, just thought id bring up a discussion about it, see if anyone knows what causes it or whatever, but if my laptop suspends while using the framebuffer it splits the screen like so :
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=======TOP PART OF SCREEN==========
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its happened both times ive installed, i was planning on leaving it showing tty2 except when i checked on it this time but i decided not to, its not a problem still works fine, regular console and X suspends fine, and i havent tested a real splash screen console so it could just be the LiveCD.
Dell Inspiron 8200 btw, anyone else notice this |
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Jimbow
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Joined: 18 Feb 2003
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Location: Silver City, NM
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I recently got suspend to ram working on my i8200 and so far there have been no problems like what you mention. I have six different framebuffer images on the six virtual consoles and they all come back just fine.
My clock drift is also greatly reduced. I was going to say I was losing about 10 seconds per day but I just checked and I am now ahead by about one second. This is with ntpd turned off!
I made several changes and I don't know what changes were important in fixing the above. The first change is that I downloaded and installed the A10 BIOS from DELL: ftp://ftp.dell.com/bios/A10-I82.EXE
AFAIK you need to install this from either a DOS diskette or while running Windows. 
The next thing I did was install the gs-sources-2.4.22-pre2. I installed these sources because someone in another thread said that they got ACPI working on an i8200 with them. I was able to get ACPI to work also which was pretty cool, but (minor point) it broke a small piece of i8k gkrellm plugin which relied on APM, and (major point) I could not find a way to make it suspend.
So I made another gs-sources kernel this time with APM installed instead of ACPI.
[opps this is starting to get long. I thought it was so simple]
In XF86Config I set:
And I installed the 3123 Nvidia drivers as described in this message.
I made sure the following showed up in my modules.conf after running modules-update: | Code: | alias char-major-195 NVdriver
alias /dev/nvidiactl char-major-195 |
This was in there already. All I had to do was to comment out the two lines in /etc/modules.d/nvidia which did almost exactly the above but with the driver name "nvidia" instead of "NVdriver".
I also added "NVdriver" (no quotes) to my /etc/modules.autoload.
Finally, after everything was working, I did: | Code: | emerge insert media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4363-r2
emerge insert media-video/nvidia-glx-1.0.4363 |
to keep emerge from wanting to downgrade my older nvidia drivers.
Turning off the AGP made dvd playback much more CPU intensive (with a GeoForce2Go and a 1.6 GHz P4) but I was still able to watch dvd's without a glitch while doing big emerges.
I am a very happy i8200/Gentoo camper at the moment.
PS: I am in the process of moving half way across the country so expect me to be off line for at least a week (starting maybe Thursday) while I move and wait for a new internet connection.
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