Help Needed: TEST FC5 KERNELS!

[Uno Engborg]

Peter Jones skrev:
> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 10:12 -0800, Alain Mellan wrote:
>   
>>> That's really weird -- video state on resume from hibernate should be
>>> *exactly* the same as if you'd just rebooted.  We're not fiddling with
>>> it, and the machine _is_ doing a cold boot.
>>>       
>> Yes. In some cases, the server starts, but the video is not
>> initialized properly. Window redrawingis not done properly.
>>     
>
> "the server starts" meaning what?  The X server?  Or are you saying
> sometimes video is messed up when you power on the machine, regardless
> of hibernate?
>
>   
>>  I added
>> chvt/fgconsole in /etc/pm/functions-intel, it does a bit better,
>>     
>
> I wouldn't expect this to make any difference at all -- we're already
> switching VTs to an unalocated one before suspend (or hibernate), and
> switching back after resume.
>
> So when it does "a bit better", what exactly are you seeing that happens
> differently?
>
> Are you using intelfb, or just the normal text mode?
>   
How do I tell, and how do I switch between them?
Anyhow, what's happening in whatever mode I am using is that 
/usr/sbin/vbetool post
never terminates.

Regards
Uno Engborg