From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andrey mirtchovski To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030121120259.Q9171@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [9fans] suspending screens (was: rotzoomer) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 12:07:01 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 44d6d84c-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Russ Cox wrote: > it's just a nightmare. the lcds tend to work better because > they have an explicit signal to do blanking rather than > infer something from the horizontal and vertical sync pulses. > both laptops and digital cards like t2r4 seem to work well. > The T21 IBM laptop I have can never restore the screen correctly after a suspend (such as closing the laptop and reopening it immediately). The problem has been reported here a few times by different people -- the screen gets split in three columns, each showing only the first third on the original screen... I have looked but wasn't really able to fix it. It existed in FreeBSD too, but has disappeared after 4.6RC2...