Re: [HEADSUP] amd64 suspend/resume code to be comitted

From: Robert Noland <rnoland_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:06:18 -0500
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 18:31 -0500, Brandon Gooch wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Adam McDougall <mcdouga9_at_egr.msu.edu> wrote:
> > Brandon Gooch wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Jung-uk Kim <jkim_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On Monday 23 March 2009 05:16 pm, Brandon Gooch wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> The committed version is working well, I am suspending and resuming
> >>>> on my Lenovo X300. Thanks for your work on this, it is one of the
> >>>> major things I needed to work so I could run FreeBSD primarily on
> >>>> my notebook.
> >>>>
> >>
> >> I just finished a kernel build and it seems as though your
> >> recent commits have fixed the clock (at least for me)!
> >>
> >> I feel sorry for all the i386 folks on ACPI notebooks...
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> -Brandon
> >>
> >
> > Picking a semi-random message here..
> >
> > Thanks for your work on this!  In the past (months ago) I tried the patch
> > set which didn't work, but the code in -current lets me suspend and resume
> > successfully on my Dell Latitude E6500 (acpiconf -s 3)!  I think this is a
> > first for me, of all the laptops I've had, none have ever been able to
> > suspend and resume in a successful or useful way, and I've been jealous of
> > the Thinkpad users that could claim otherwise.  I could suspend and resume
> > fine while in the console, then I ran startx and the suspend and resume
> > worked while I was in X with intel graphics, however my system was slow
> > after that resume.  I didn't spend much time looking at it since I was at
> > work, and I didn't see any obvious reasons for the slowness (cpu frequency
> > was fine, cx states were C2 or lower (C1), top showed mostly idle, no
> > evidence of an IRQ storm) yet processes ran fairly sluggish (not the mouse
> > or typing though).  I didn't go back to console, I just shut down without
> > trying any other situations yet.
> >
> > A tip I want to note for any users who may not have success with their
> > screen on resume:  In the past it seemed to help me to have a power-on
> > password set in my BIOS since the BIOS will turn on the screen on resume to
> > ask me for my password.  I don't know if it is still helping me, but I've
> > seen in the past where it has.
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> 
> The sluggish response in X on Intel video has been an issue the past
> couple of days, triggered by suspend/resume or simply switching to VTY
> and back.

I just committed code that should fix this...

robert.

> See this thread:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-March/004968.html
> 
> Firefox is unusable, but xterms are still usable. I have to reboot to
> get back to "normal"
> 
> -Brandon
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Robert Noland <rnoland_at_FreeBSD.org>
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