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2006 and suspend - needs vbetool to work

I need a bit of direction. I finally have the ACPI issues straightened out on my laptop, and have one more thing I need to do.

I need to use vbetool to store the video state prior to suspend to RAM, and restore it after the wake up. Problem is, I do not know how to implement it so its automatic.

I created a test script that works, so I know the vbetool utility is doing its job, I could just use a little direction on what scripts I need to edit to make it work.

Thanks

g

Ok, after looking through the scripts and folders that it should be running, this is what I found.

There is a script /usr/sbin/pmsuspend2 that starts the suspend process.

This calls the script /etc/sysconfig/suspend-scripts/suspend.control

which processes each script in
/etc/sysconfig/suspend-scripts/suspend.d

I created a script called video, using one of the other scipts as a template.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

# -*- Mode: shell-script -*-

# Copyright (C) 2003 by MandrakeSoft, Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>

# Redistribution of this file is permitted under the terms of the GNU 

# Public License (GPL)

#

# resume: 20

#

 

ARG=$1

 

function suspend {

    /usr/bin/chvt 1

    /usr/sbin/vbetool vbestate save > /tmp/video-state

    true;

}

 

function resume {

    /usr/sbin/vbetool vbestate restore < /tmp/video-state

    /usr/bin/chvt 7

}

 

case $ARG in

    suspend)

suspend

;;

    resume)

resume

;;

esac

debugging it, I see that the resume function gets called, but the suspend function never gets run.

Suggestions? Or am I going about this the wrong way?

Thanks

g