Re: What PM should be and do (Was Re: Solving suspend-level confusion)

From: Pavel Machek (pavel_at_ucw.cz)
Date: 08/08/04

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    Hi!

    > >> > - support for telling what class of device a driver is handling (I'm
    > >> > particularly interested in keeping the keyboard, screen and storage
    > >> > devices alive while suspending).
    > >>
    > >> You can see that info today from userspace by looking in
    > >> /sys/class/input, /sys/class/graphics, and /sys/block
    >
    > It is a minor point, but as many people are working on swsuspend right
    > now, I thought I'd mentionned it. It seems (as of 2.6.8.rc1) that the
    > screen is not shut down or put in a low power state when suspending to
    > disk.
    >
    > I guess that for 99.5 % of the population, it is not an issue as the
    > monitor is usually plugged in the power supply of the computer and
    > power is cut when the computer shuts down. My monitor, however, is
    > directly plugged in the mains outlet and, after a suspend to disk, it
    > displays indefinitely an information box stating that it has no video
    > signal coming in.

    Hmm, pretty stupid monitor, it should timeout and poweroff itself.

    > The X server knows how to shutdown (DPMS) the screen afer some
    > inactivity, so I guess the kernel could do that while
    > suspending. And it

    If you shutdown monitor via DPMS then hard-turn the machine off, what
    happens? Does monitor stay turned off? [If not, all hopes are off.]

    > would be very nice if it would. But I believe there is no device
    > driver handling the monitor, so I don't know where to do it.

    radeonfb (etc) could do that, but support for this is poor, I agree.

                                                                    Pavel

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