[lug] bad refresh going back to text mode from X on laptop.

[Brian Jarrett]

Thanks for the offer of help.  I'm still trying a few things.  I'm going to set up nvidia's drivers instead of the generic ones to see if that makes any difference.

I checked out suspend/resume and that works fine whether I'm in a console or in X.  I've also noticed that once I'm in X ALL of my vt's are messed up just like when I logout to console.

Maybe I should just keep it in X, hmmm?

One other thing... fbset shows that I'm using an 800x600, 16 bit mode.  X is running 1400x1050, 24 bit mode.  Attempts to use fbset to change modes, or setting X to the same as the framebuffer doesn't work either.

I'll let you know how the drivers work out.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Rasch [mailto:pjr at phaedrus.cgd.ucar.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 12:56 PM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] bad refresh going back to text mode from X 
> on laptop.
> 
> 
> 
> Brian Jarrett wrote:
> much snipped............
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
> 
> Maybe I missed something here, but have you tried the usual fixes for 
> dealing with suspend/resume problems on laptops?
> 
> On modern versions of linux it usually requires scripts stuck in
> /etc/apm and modifications to the XF86Config-4 file to reset the mode.
> 
> A reasonable description can be found on
> http://www.linuxlaptops.com/ll/xresume.html 
> 
> If it doesnt make sense you can contact me offline and maybe I can
> make suggestions.
> 
> Phil
> 
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