Swampy Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 I just installed Dynamic webgui and Dynamic S3 sleep. I have used S3 sleep command on 4.7 pro with no issue. Now that I am at 5.04 pro when I do a WOL I no longer have a video source to my monitor. Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks Quote Link to comment
peter_sm Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Yes, it's same for me, don't know if there are a solution for V5 to get the video back on the monitor after WOL? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment
bonienl Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 S3 Sleep in Dynamix relies on the functionality of the OS to properly support S3 sleep. The Linux kernel was replaced between version 4.7 and 5.0, it is on this level to search the answer ... Quote Link to comment
peter_sm Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 I remember in the past that I have to add a kernel settings to the syslinux.cfg file. I dif a quick Googling and found some information... I do not use it right now. I will give it a try this evening Parameter acpi_sleep=s3_bios From my head I think it should be something like this append initrd=/bzroot acpi_sleep=s3_bios Description makes the system call the video BIOS to reenable video on resume from suspend-to-ram (use this if you experience a blank display after resume while your system seems elsewise awake //Peter Quote Link to comment
maspiter Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 I too am having problems to resume from sleep. I didn't test it out in unRAID 4.7 but sleep and resume work fine under Windows 8 with the same hardware. Apart from not getting any video, my NIC doesn't respond either. On the slackwiki I read that you have to append the drive to resume from to the append parameter. Since unRAID uses a ramdiskhttp://www.slackwiki.com/Hibernate I assume you have to fill in the location of the ramdisk. Question is, what's it called? I'm not even sure I need to add this or if this is going to help, just trying stuff out TBH. Would installing pm-utils be necessary? Quote Link to comment
Swampy Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 Well I don't have any code experience so I believe I will have to resort to power down state for the interim. Thanks Quote Link to comment
maspiter Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 For editing syslinux.cfg? No code experience needed for that at all. Just connect to your flash drive over the network or power down and plug it in another PC. Open syslinux.cfg (in the syslinux folder) from your unRAID flash drive and add the option in the append line so it looks like this: append initrd=/bzroot acpi_sleep=s3_bios Reboot our unRAID box and test sleep. That's it. BTW, forget about the rambling in my previous post. That applies to hibernation not sleep. Quote Link to comment
Swampy Posted January 25, 2014 Author Share Posted January 25, 2014 Thanks for your advise but I still don't have a video signal after wake up command. below is the script using notepad2. I add api_sleep+s3_bios to the first "append initrd=bzroot". Was this the correct thing to do or should I have a complete new line for this? default menu.c32 menu title Lime Technology LLC prompt 0 timeout 50 label unRAID OS menu default kernel bzimage append initrd=bzroot acpi_sleep=s3_bios label unRAID OS (Safe Mode) kernel bzimage append initrd=bzroot unraidsafemode label Memtest86+ kernel memtest Quote Link to comment
Swampy Posted January 25, 2014 Author Share Posted January 25, 2014 Interesting. Now that I have more time to mess with S3 sleep I have found that not only don't have video connected to server that I can't access IPaddress/Main remotely. What becomes more interesting is that I do have access with unMenu to server as well I can use shell in a Box as well as Putty remotely. "EDIT" Just done a reboot and tried the S3 then wake up and it does break the Dynamic Web GUI. This is using the original non modified syslinux.cfg file. I have not tried the modified file as I have not received response to question on entering the "acpi_sleep=s3_bios" to the file. Thanks Quote Link to comment
foo_fighter Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 You probably need vbetool to re-init the video bios.... Quote Link to comment
Swampy Posted January 25, 2014 Author Share Posted January 25, 2014 I went to the internet to do some reading on it and it sounds like vbetool is a good direction to resolve my problem. Keeping in mind that I am a plug & Play type of guy, If it is not a plugin or package I tend to be lost as far as execution. I downloaded and extracted vbetool to Flash as this is as far as I know to go. Thanks Quote Link to comment
foo_fighter Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Oh...it's not that bad. After you wake just login(telnet or ssh) run vbetool post on the command line and hopefully your monitor will display something. If that works you can add it to your post wake up script. I went to the internet to do some reading on it and it sounds like vbetool is a good direction to resolve my problem. Keeping in mind that I am a plug & Play type of guy, If it is not a plugin or package I tend to be lost as far as execution. I downloaded and extracted vbetool to Flash as this is as far as I know to go. Thanks Quote Link to comment
Stripe Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 I had some problems using Dynamix S3 plugin (couldn't access web gui after using WOL command) and i had to roll back to the 2.01 version of this pluginn (insted of 2.03) and now everything works fine. You may try this on your machine. Quote Link to comment
Swampy Posted January 26, 2014 Author Share Posted January 26, 2014 I must of downloaded the wrong VBETOOL package as I only have the following files: vbetool.1 vebtool.c vedtool.h Quote Link to comment
aspik Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Could it be realted: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=31413.msg284145#msg284145 ? It is such a popular mb in the unraid community, it is even one of the official mb's from lime-tech. I just can't imagine that no one else is reporting similarly problems. I know that many of you running the servers 24/7 but for me it is not necessary, I need access to my data only when I use my htpc. Quote Link to comment
bonienl Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Could it be realted: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=31413.msg284145#msg284145 ? It is such a popular mb in the unraid community, it is even one of the official mb's from lime-tech. I just can't imagine that no one else is reporting similarly problems. I know that many of you running the servers 24/7 but for me it is not necessary, I need access to my data only when I use my htpc. Keep in mind that S3 sleep and WOL are not officially supported by Limetech. It is a feature available in the linux kernel, but no guarantees! Quote Link to comment
aspik Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Keep in mind that S3 sleep and WOL are not officially supported by Limetech. It is a feature available in the linux kernel, but no guarantees! Yeah, I know that and I wonder why it is not officially supported, is there any particular reason? I thought unraid is mainly designed as a data storage for home users. Why should it be 24h on, when I use it only 6h a day? Good that the S3 script from you has an option to power-down instead of sleep, with SMCIPMITool I can turn on my server with a command also from G2 (S5) state. Quote Link to comment
bonienl Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 There is a lot of hardware dependencies, I don't think Limetech wants to go into the direction of validating all the motherboard & CPU combos out there ... Quote Link to comment
aspik Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 OK, this is indeed a reason. Quote Link to comment
foo_fighter Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 You downloaded the source code. You could compile it if you have gcc installed but it's probably easier to find the pre compiled slackware package. http://slackfind.net/en/packages/search/?name=vbetool I must of downloaded the wrong VBETOOL package as I only have the following files: vbetool.1 vebtool.c vedtool.h Quote Link to comment
Swampy Posted January 27, 2014 Author Share Posted January 27, 2014 No relation to my issue. When I was on 4.x Pro I hand no issue at all with S3 or Wake up command. Once I switched to 5.4, now 5.5 pro I no longer have video source on Wake up. I still have not found a good source to download VBETOOL package. Thanks Quote Link to comment
lewcass Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 foofighter gave you a source for vbetool. I believe the version you want for unRAID 5.05 is the one for Slackware 13.1 vbetool-1.1-i486-1 Slackware-13.1 / slackware.com location: slackware/ap That said, I've been following this discussion and trying the suggestions, also without success. I have the same issue with video following wake from S3 sleep, with unRAID 5.x, but in my case it was concurrent with a new motherboard, so I've been blaming the issue on the motherboard, not strictly on unRAID 5.x. However I had already been able to solve the issue (for the most part) using a package called s2ram, that was first discussed on the forum years ago. The vbetool package is included in s2ram. s2ram requires initiating sleep via the s2ram command - which would require a modification of the sleep script in Dynamix or using a separate sleep script incorporating the s2ram command. And it requires experimenting with various s2ram parameters to find those that work with your hardware and also installation of the libx86 package (as does vbetool). Documention for s2ram. Google for other sources. Quote Link to comment
Swampy Posted January 28, 2014 Author Share Posted January 28, 2014 Thank for the links and your time to try to resolve this. I gave Vbetool but did not work for video sig. Also forgot the issue with Dynamic Web GUT being broken on wake up. Will try s2RAM when I have more time for it. Quote Link to comment
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