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Re: Fwd: [Suspend-devel] resume not working on acer ferrari 4005 with radeonfb enabled

From: Christian Hoffmann <hidden>
Date: 2006-11-14 21:48:11
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On Tuesday 14 November 2006 00:08, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Monday, 13 November 2006 23:08, Christian Hoffmann wrote:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rafael J. Wysocki [mailto:rjw@sisk.pl]
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 3:06 PM
To: Christian Hoffmann
Cc: Pavel Machek; Benjamin Herrenschmidt; Andrew Morton;
Solomon Peachy; linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; LKML
Subject: Re: Fwd: [Suspend-devel] resume not working on acer
ferrari 4005 with radeonfb enabled

On Monday, 13 November 2006 11:51, Christian Hoffmann wrote:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Pavel Machek [mailto:pavel@ucw.cz]
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 1:14 PM
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Christian Hoffmann; Andrew Morton; Solomon Peachy; Rafael J.
Wysocki; linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; LKML;
Christian@ogre.sisk.pl; Hoffmann@albercik.sisk.pl
Subject: Re: Fwd: [Suspend-devel] resume not working on
acer ferrari
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4005 with radeonfb enabled

Hi!
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Then the radeonfb doesn't kick in at all (guess some
pci ids are
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added in that patch).

BTW: resume/suspend works ok if I have the vesa fb enabled.
In that case (vesafb), when does the screen come back
precisely ? Do
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you get console mode back and then X ? Or it only comes
back when
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going back to X ? Do you have some userland-type vbetool
thingy that
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bring it back ?
He's using s3_bios+s3_mode, so kernel does some BIOS
calls to reinit
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the video. It should come out in text mode, too.

Christian, can you unload radeonfb before suspend/reload it after
resume?
Will it work if radeonfb is compiled as module? I think I
had problems
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with that, but I'll try again.
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Next possibility is setting up serial console and adding some
printks to radeon...
Unfortunatly, the laptop doesn't have serial port. I tried to get a
USB device (pocketpc) read the USB serial, but I only partially
succeeded. I can pass console=ttyUSB0 to the kernel and
load the ipaq
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serial console driver as it oopses. I am able to echo strings to
/dev/ttyUSB0  and read them on the ipaq, but I am not able to
"deviate" the kernel messages to that port. Any hints on how to do
that would be very appreciated, I didn't find anything
usefull on the
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web. (I tried with setconsole /dev/ttyUSB0 but it gives error msg
about device busy or something)
Would it be practicable to use netconsole on your box?  If
so, it should work.
I tried netconsole, and it somehow works, but when suspending it says in
an "infinite" loop:

unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth2 to become free. Usage count = 1
Hm.  Is your kernel compiled with CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND set?

Rafael
I tried that patch, but the last message I see over netconsole (using tg3) is:
Suspending console(s)
and then nothing. Nothing on resume at all :(

Adding some printks in the radeonfb_pci_suspend and radeonfb_pci_resume 
(radeon_pm.c) didn't help: I don't see them. But I am not a kernel programmer 
at all, so I might do something wrong or in the wrong place.

Chris

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