[TAG] ATI/OpenGL/swsusp/etc.

[Ben Okopnik]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 04:57:08AM +0100, Jimmy O'Regan wrote:
> Ben Okopnik wrote:
> 
> >My question is, does anyone know
> >of a mechanism to load/unload X modules on the fly? This would be the
> >*perfect* solution until this is fixed in the code. They're called
> >"dynamically loadable modules", and this gives me hope.
>
> Have you looked here: http://cpbotha.net/dri_resume.html ?
> "*NOTE3:* It seems that the swsusp code doesn't correctly restore all 
> MTRRs: in your suspend/resume script, do something similar to what I do 
> at the end of my script 
> <http://cpbotha.net/clevo5600/scripts/suspend.txt>. Replace the 
> addresses and sizes with what you see when you do a "cat /proc/mtrr" on 
> your system. This is not crucial and you should only do it if you see a 
> 2D slow down during full screen repainting (at virtual desktop switches 
> for instance). It also seems (from the changelog) that swsusp v17 is 
> restoring MTRRs now. I haven't been able to test this yet."

Although it doesn't sound like the problem I've been having, I'll
definitely check that out. Thanks, Jimmy!


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