Sleep Quirk Debugger

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What are the quirks actually doing?

DPMS On

This option forces the video hardware to turn on the screen during resume. Most video adapters turn on the screen themselves, but if you get a blank screen on resume, that can be turned back on by moving the mouse or typing then this option may be useful.

DPMS Suspend

This option forces the video hardware to turn off the output device when suspending. Most video adapters seem to do this correctly, but some leave the backlight on (with a blank screen) using lots and lots of power in the process. If you can see the backlight is on when you have successfully suspended you may need to use this option.

Radeon Off

This option forces Radeon hardware to turn on the brightness DAC and also to turn on the backlight during resume. You only need to do this on some old ThinkPads of the '30 series (T30, X31, R32,... ) with Radeon video hardware.

S3 BIOS

This option calls the video BIOS during S3 resume. Unfortunately, it is not always allowed to call the video BIOS at this point, so sometimes adding this option can actually break resume on some systems.

S3 MODE

This option initializes the video card into a VGA text mode, and then uses the BIOS to set the video mode. On some systems S3 BIOS only initializes the video bios to text mode, and so both S3 BIOS and S3 MODE are needed.

VBE POST

This option will attempt to run BIOS code located at c000:0003 during resume. This is the code also run by the system BIOS at boot in order to initialize the video hardware.

VBE Mode Restore

This option will save and restore the current VESA mode which may be necessary to avoid X screen corruption. Using this feature on Intel graphics hardware is probably a bad idea.

VBE State Restore

This option uses the VESA 0x4f0f extensions to save and restore hardware state which may be invalid after suspend.

VGA Mode 3

This option will try to re-enable the video card on resume.

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