From: Pavel Machek Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:56:56 +0000 (-0700) Subject: [PATCH] suspend: update documentation X-Git-Tag: v2.6.14-rc1~838 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7e958883bced7e435f5a76349e15684858d3477c;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] suspend: update documentation Update suspend documentation. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt index 7a6b789664..ddf907fbcc 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt @@ -311,3 +311,10 @@ As a rule of thumb use encrypted swap to protect your data while your system is shut down or suspended. Additionally use the encrypted suspend image to prevent sensitive data from being stolen after resume. + +Q: Why we cannot suspend to a swap file? + +A: Because accessing swap file needs the filesystem mounted, and +filesystem might do something wrong (like replaying the journal) +during mount. [Probably could be solved by modifying every filesystem +to support some kind of "really read-only!" option. Patches welcome.] diff --git a/Documentation/power/video.txt b/Documentation/power/video.txt index 7a4a5036d1..1a44e8acb5 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/video.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/video.txt @@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ There are a few types of systems where video works after S3 resume: POSTing bios works. Ole Rohne has patch to do just that at http://dev.gentoo.org/~marineam/patch-radeonfb-2.6.11-rc2-mm2. +(8) on some systems, you can use the video_post utility mentioned here: + http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3670. Do echo 3 > /sys/power/state + && /usr/sbin/video_post - which will initialize the display in console mode. + If you are in X, you can switch to a virtual terminal and back to X using + CTRL+ALT+F1 - CTRL+ALT+F7 to get the display working in graphical mode again. + Now, if you pass acpi_sleep=something, and it does not work with your bios, you'll get a hard crash during resume. Be careful. Also it is safest to do your experiments with plain old VGA console. The vesafb @@ -64,7 +70,8 @@ Model hack (or "how to do it") ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Acer Aspire 1406LC ole's late BIOS init (7), turn off DRI Acer TM 242FX vbetool (6) -Acer TM C300 vga=normal (only suspend on console, not in X), vbetool (6) +Acer TM C110 video_post (8) +Acer TM C300 vga=normal (only suspend on console, not in X), vbetool (6) or video_post (8) Acer TM 4052LCi s3_bios (2) Acer TM 636Lci s3_bios vga=normal (2) Acer TM 650 (Radeon M7) vga=normal plus boot-radeon (5) gets text console back