[desktop-discuss] Re: suspend/resume

[Garrett D'Amore]

Peter Tribble wrote:
> On 5/1/07, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org> wrote:
>> Btw, SUSPEND _does_ work on SPARC, and has for a long time, though it is
>> only supported on desktop class systems.  Only on x86 platforms is this
>> feature "new".
>
> For some version of "work" that - for me and the machines I have 
> available -
> doesn't necessarily involve the notions of "reliably" or "quickly".
>
> Or is there something problematic about XVR-500 graphics?
>
> (It always used to work great years ago, but I don't trust it. The 
> worst thing
> is that it takes 2-3 minutes to suspend, and fails a reasonable fraction
> of the time, so you can't walk away and rely on it to suspend. And 
> I've only
> just had one of the SunBlade 150s not wake up properly and needing to
> be power-cycled.)

Hmm... this sounds like one or more bugs.  Please check in bugster.  
I've not got access to the combination of XVR-500 and SB150 (in fact I 
have access to neither) but I tested SUSPEND/RESUME on a SB100 just last 
week without difficulty.

I don't often use it anymore, but it _should_ work.

I doubt strongly its an XVR-500 bug.  Since pfb has been known to 
suspend properly on Tadpole hardware.

    -- Garrett