In message: <20040130092529.GA725_at_laptop.6bone.nl> Mark Santcroos <marks_at_ripe.net> writes: : On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:32:54AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: : > I read the spec yesterday, and what is supposed to happen is this: The : > display (LCD, CRT, etc.) is supposed to be powered down using DPMS. The : > actual adapter is then supposed to be powered down using either PCI or ACPI : > sleep states, and the adapter should not be powered down to a lower sleep : > state (like D3) w/o using DPMS to power the display down to at least that : > state first. This means that the kernel might need to grow a dummy vga : > driver of some sort and some simple dpms support for suspend/resume. : : I second this. : : Nate, can you put it on your acpi-todo list? The only problem with having a vga device for suspend/resume is that it will claim devices that drm wants to claim later and X won't work. I have about the simplest driver possible for vga in one of my trees, and found this to be a problem on my dell i8k. WarnerReceived on Fri Jan 30 2004 - 06:36:40 UTC
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