TEST: Sleep suppport for iBook G4 & Aluminium PowerBooks (ATI based)

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 17:08 -0500, Armando Di Cianno wrote:
> On 2004-11-20 16:47:34 -0500 Sean Neakums <sneakums at zork.net> wrote:
> > I tried this on my 15" AlBook (one of the new 1.5GHz ones), applied to
> > Debian's 2.6.9.  It suspended and resumed fine (and quickly!), but
> > after resume I noticed that images (in Mozilla and the root window)
> > would become corrupted if obscured and made visible again, e.g. by
> > switching tabs, or by moving between a full and an empty workspace.
> 
> Just a note that I tried this with gentoo's 
> gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.9-r3 and discovered the exact some symptoms.  
> It mainly only seems to have corrupted the X root window, although 
> some, but not all, images in a web page in firefox show similar 
> distortions.  Currently my system is running XOrg 6.7.0.  I did not 
> notice this problem with the first patch for sleep.

Sounds like the offscreen pixmap cache gets corrupted. The usual
question for this kind of problem: Does

grep APM /var/log/X{Free86,org}.0.log

show

(II) Open APM successful

?


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