Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266352AbUAVRdx (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:33:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266354AbUAVRdx (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:33:53 -0500 Received: from wsip-68-99-153-203.ri.ri.cox.net ([68.99.153.203]:23967 "EHLO blue-labs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266352AbUAVRdv (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:33:51 -0500 Message-ID: <40100962.4040306@blue-labs.org> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:33:22 -0500 From: David Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040121 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Georg C. F. Greve" CC: Karol Kozimor , acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ACPI] PROBLEM: LCD display dead after ACPI suspend to RAM (S3) References: <20040122140155.GC5194@hell.org.pl> <20040122154638.GA11867@hell.org.pl> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1373 Lines: 52 Try hitting the hardware function key that swaps the CRT/LCD and/or the function key that changes the font. Works on my laptop. Really annoying two-fold issue. First, the screen is blank, second, I have to blindly run setfont to change the garbage font to a readable font. I'm not running an fb, just an nvidia card in text mode on a Dell Inspiron 8200. David Georg C. F. Greve wrote: > || On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:46:38 +0100 > || Karol Kozimor wrote: > > kk> Does it work before the suspend (i.e. does the backlight switch > kk> on and off)? > >Yes. > > > kk> If so, your problem is probably a video driver issue and I'm > kk> afraid I can't be of further help. > >Where would the people maintaining the video driver have to look? > > > kk> Also, are you using a framebuffer? > >Yes. > > > kk> If so, try not, i.e. use a simple VGA console -> s3_bios works > kk> fine for me on a VGA console, but produces a blank (though > kk> backlit) screen with radeonfb. Best regards, > >Interesting. I'll try that. > >May this be a problem of the fb driver then? > >Thanks for your input, >Georg > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/