Cc: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@...>, lkml <linux-kernel@...>, Dave Airlie <airlied@...>, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...>, <linux-acpi@...>, suspend-devel List <suspend-devel@...>, Greg KH <gregkh@...>
Try suspend-and-resume without X.
Also, try it on one of the more modern laptops - even *with* X.
Basically, the kernel wants to be able to do what X does, because it means
that when it works, it works _so_ much better than doing it in X. So
getting it working is definitely worth it.
That said, before you do anything else, try if suspend-to-RAM works.
That's the primary goal for this code anyway, and if it works that gives a
good hint. Suspend-to-disk is fundamentally different, and it's entirely
possible that for the suspend-to-disk case we should just say "screw
trying to suspend/resume graphics", since you'll have the BIOS resuming
text-mode anyway, and there are no performance or debugging advantages.
Linus
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