Re: Eee PC, black screen after sleep

["Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> Running 4.99.64 (GENERIC modified by sysutils/adjustkernel, plus ath0
> patches and DRM enabled), my Eee PC 900 keeps a black console when coming
> back from sleep. It is not frozen (I can blindly use 'sudo reboot').
>
> I have tried "machdep.acpi_vbios_reset = 1" and "machdep.acpi_vbios_reset
> = 0": same issue.
>
> I have tried "machdep.acpi_beep_on_reset = 0": I don't hear a beep.
>
> I have blindly tried "vbetool post": screen keeps black.
>
> Running GENERIC does not allow entering sleep state because "Devices
> without power management support: ath0".
>
> Thoughts ?
> Remarks ?

Hi Joel --

You need to have Xorg running when you go to sleep as on the EeePC 701, 
keep acpi_vbios_reset set to 1. This has been tested with 
xf86-video-intel-2.1.1 and newer.

Cheers,
Jared