Intel graphics driver -- thanks!

Nick Lidakis nlidakis at verizon.net
Thu Feb 15 12:17:23 PST 2007


Jin, Gordon wrote:
>
>
> In most cases, video S3 suspend failure is caused by BIOS. And
> unfortunately upgrading to the latest BIOS doesn't always help.
> Different system has different behavior and workaround. This is
> explained in Kernel-src/Documentation/power/video.txt.
>
> I have some experience for S3 suspend on those models listed in
> http://intellinuxgraphics.org/results/2007-02-01__0/result.htm.
> For the IBM 945GM and 915GM laptop, I could use boot option
> "acpi_sleep=s3_bios" to workaround.
> But for the DELL 965/945/915, I have to use vbetool to workaround.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -Gordon
>
>   
So it is the ACPI implementation in the BIOS. The video card just needs 
to wake up when told to.

Thanks for the info.



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