[Savage40] Problems with suspend w/ FC3

[bjorn at comcast.net]

Alex Deucher wrote:
> You might try with xorg from cvs or use an older savage X server.  The
> code in 6.8.x leaves the overlay on all the time, rather than setting
> it  up each time a video is displayed.  Since the overlay regs are not
> restored on resume, they can potentially lose their settings when you
> suspend the machine.  The code in xorg cvs has changed to set up the
> overlay each time you use it (roughly the old behavior), so it should
> work for you.

I dropped Tim's original 1.1.27t xf44-driver into the driver directory, and as far as I can tell, it's now working correcly again.

Damn, that's annoying - I explicitly checked the driver version and it said 1.1.27, but apparently, they changed it without changing the version number?

That's just wrong!

Thanks for the heads-up!


> 
> --- bjorn at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> > I recently installed Fedora Core 3 on my Thinkpad laptop using the
> > 1.1.27 included with the X.org 6.8.1 release. Previously, I'd been
> > running FC1 with the latest (1.1.27t) savage driver from Tims web
> > site together with whatever XFree86 release was the default, without
> > any major glitches..
> > 
> > Now when I suspend or hibernate, the machine will often, but not
> > always, mess up video playback. The video window (running mplayer or
> > xine) will open normally, but some kind of overlay will appear
> > seemingly over the video window and extending to (about?) twice the
> > height of the real window. If I move the window, this overlay will
> > move along with it, but is still extending beyond the window with
> > which it is associated. The overlay is black - no video is shown.
> > 
> > Another thing that seem to trigger a similar effect is to switch
> > resolutions using xrandr. I seem to remember getting  a similar
> > effect this way even with FC1 + 1.1.27t, but I never had any trouble
> > after suspension.
> > 
> > I've tried switching vt:s before and after suspension, and even if I
> > restart the X server the problem persists.
> > 
> > Anyone got any ideas or suggestions, short of going back to FC1?
> 
> You might try with xorg from cvs or use an older savage X server.  The
> code in 6.8.x leaves the overlay on all the time, rather than setting
> it  up each time a video is displayed.  Since the overlay regs are not
> restored on resume, they can potentially lose their settings when you
> suspend the machine.  The code in xorg cvs has changed to set up the
> overlay each time you use it (roughly the old behavior), so it should
> work for you.
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> 
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