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2 Video issues with S3 resume
3 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4 2003-2005, Pavel Machek
5
6During S3 resume, hardware needs to be reinitialized. For most
7devices, this is easy, and kernel driver knows how to do
8it. Unfortunately there's one exception: video card. Those are usually
9initialized by BIOS, and kernel does not have enough information to
10boot video card. (Kernel usually does not even contain video card
11driver -- vesafb and vgacon are widely used).
12
13This is not problem for swsusp, because during swsusp resume, BIOS is
14run normally so video card is normally initialized. S3 has absolutely
15no chance of working with SMP/HT. Be sure it to turn it off before
16testing (swsusp should work ok, OTOH).
17
18There are a few types of systems where video works after S3 resume:
19
20(1) systems where video state is preserved over S3.
21
22(2) systems where it is possible to call the video BIOS during S3
23 resume. Unfortunately, it is not correct to call the video BIOS at
24 that point, but it happens to work on some machines. Use
25 acpi_sleep=s3_bios.
26
27(3) systems that initialize video card into vga text mode and where
28 the BIOS works well enough to be able to set video mode. Use
29 acpi_sleep=s3_mode on these.
30
31(4) on some systems s3_bios kicks video into text mode, and
32 acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode is needed.
33
34(5) radeon systems, where X can soft-boot your video card. You'll need
35 new enough X, and plain text console (no vesafb or radeonfb), see
36 http://www.doesi.gmxhome.de/linux/tm800s3/s3.html. Actually you
37 should probably use vbetool (6) instead.
38
39(6) other radeon systems, where vbetool is enough to bring system back
40 to life. It needs text console to be working. Do vbetool vbestate
41 save > /tmp/delme; echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep; vbetool post; vbetool
42 vbestate restore < /tmp/delme; setfont <whatever>, and your video
43 should work.
44
45(7) on some systems, it is possible to boot most of kernel, and then
46 POSTing bios works. Ole Rohne has patch to do just that at
47 http://dev.gentoo.org/~marineam/patch-radeonfb-2.6.11-rc2-mm2.
48
49Now, if you pass acpi_sleep=something, and it does not work with your
50bios, you'll get a hard crash during resume. Be careful. Also it is
51safest to do your experiments with plain old VGA console. The vesafb
52and radeonfb (etc) drivers have a tendency to crash the machine during
53resume.
54
55You may have a system where none of above works. At that point you
56either invent another ugly hack that works, or write proper driver for
57your video card (good luck getting docs :-(). Maybe suspending from X
58(proper X, knowing your hardware, not XF68_FBcon) might have better
59chance of working.
60
61Table of known working systems:
62
63Model hack (or "how to do it")
64------------------------------------------------------------------------------
65Acer Aspire 1406LC ole's late BIOS init (7), turn off DRI
66Acer TM 242FX vbetool (6)
67Acer TM C300 vga=normal (only suspend on console, not in X), vbetool (6)
68Acer TM 4052LCi s3_bios (2)
69Acer TM 636Lci s3_bios vga=normal (2)
70Acer TM 650 (Radeon M7) vga=normal plus boot-radeon (5) gets text console back
71Acer TM 660 ??? (*)
72Acer TM 800 vga=normal, X patches, see webpage (5) or vbetool (6)
73Acer TM 803 vga=normal, X patches, see webpage (5) or vbetool (6)
74Acer TM 803LCi vga=normal, vbetool (6)
75Arima W730a vbetool needed (6)
76Asus L2400D s3_mode (3)(***) (S1 also works OK)
77Asus L3800C (Radeon M7) s3_bios (2) (S1 also works OK)
78Asus M6NE ??? (*)
79Athlon64 desktop prototype s3_bios (2)
80Compal CL-50 ??? (*)
81Compaq Armada E500 - P3-700 none (1) (S1 also works OK)
82Compaq Evo N620c vga=normal, s3_bios (2)
83Dell 600m, ATI R250 Lf none (1), but needs xorg-x11-6.8.1.902-1
84Dell D600, ATI RV250 vga=normal and X, or try vbestate (6)
85Dell Inspiron 4000 ??? (*)
86Dell Inspiron 500m ??? (*)
87Dell Inspiron 600m ??? (*)
88Dell Inspiron 8200 ??? (*)
89Dell Inspiron 8500 ??? (*)
90Dell Inspiron 8600 ??? (*)
91eMachines athlon64 machines vbetool needed (6) (someone please get me model #s)
92HP NC6000 s3_bios, may not use radeonfb (2); or vbetool (6)
93HP NX7000 ??? (*)
94HP Pavilion ZD7000 vbetool post needed, need open-source nv driver for X
95HP Omnibook XE3 athlon version none (1)
96HP Omnibook XE3GC none (1), video is S3 Savage/IX-MV
97IBM TP T20, model 2647-44G none (1), video is S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV, vesafb gets "interesting" but X work.
98IBM TP A31 / Type 2652-M5G s3_mode (3) [works ok with BIOS 1.04 2002-08-23, but not at all with BIOS 1.11 2004-11-05 :-(]
99IBM TP R32 / Type 2658-MMG none (1)
100IBM TP R40 2722B3G ??? (*)
101IBM TP R50p / Type 1832-22U s3_bios (2)
102IBM TP R51 ??? (*)
103IBM TP T30 236681A ??? (*)
104IBM TP T40 / Type 2373-MU4 none (1)
105IBM TP T40p none (1)
106IBM TP R40p s3_bios (2)
107IBM TP T41p s3_bios (2), switch to X after resume
108IBM TP T42 ??? (*)
109IBM ThinkPad T42p (2373-GTG) s3_bios (2)
110IBM TP X20 ??? (*)
111IBM TP X30 ??? (*)
112IBM TP X31 / Type 2672-XXH none (1), use radeontool (http://fdd.com/software/radeon/) to turn off backlight.
113IBM Thinkpad X40 Type 2371-7JG s3_bios,s3_mode (4)
114Medion MD4220 ??? (*)
115Samsung P35 vbetool needed (6)
116Sharp PC-AR10 (ATI rage) none (1)
117Sony Vaio PCG-F403 ??? (*)
118Sony Vaio PCG-N505SN ??? (*)
119Sony Vaio vgn-s260 X or boot-radeon can init it (5)
120Toshiba Libretto L5 none (1)
121Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT s3_mode (3)
122Toshiba Satellite 4080XCDT s3_mode (3)
123Toshiba Satellite 4090XCDT ??? (*)
124Toshiba Satellite P10-554 s3_bios,s3_mode (4)(****)
125Uniwill 244IIO ??? (*)
126
127
128(*) from http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HoaryPMResults, not sure
129 which options to use. If you know, please tell me.
130
131(***) To be tested with a newer kernel.
132
133(****) Not with SMP kernel, UP only.
134
135VBEtool details
136~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
137(with thanks to Carl-Daniel Hailfinger)
138
139First, boot into X and run the following script ONCE:
140#!/bin/bash
141statedir=/root/s3/state
142mkdir -p $statedir
143chvt 2
144sleep 1
145vbetool vbestate save >$statedir/vbe
146
147
148To suspend and resume properly, call the following script as root:
149#!/bin/bash
150statedir=/root/s3/state
151curcons=`fgconsole`
152fuser /dev/tty$curcons 2>/dev/null|xargs ps -o comm= -p|grep -q X && chvt 2
153cat /dev/vcsa >$statedir/vcsa
154sync
155echo 3 >/proc/acpi/sleep
156sync
157vbetool post
158vbetool vbestate restore <$statedir/vbe
159cat $statedir/vcsa >/dev/vcsa
160rckbd restart
161chvt $[curcons%6+1]
162chvt $curcons
163
164
165Unless you change your graphics card or other hardware configuration,
166the state once saved will be OK for every resume afterwards.
167NOTE: The "rckbd restart" command may be different for your
168distribution. Simply replace it with the command you would use to
169set the fonts on screen.