Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > >>>>Aww crap, thunderbird screwed up the white space... >>>> >>>>A usable version of the patch is attached, or here is a link: >>>>http://dev.gentoo.org/~marineam/files/patch-radeonfb-2.6.12 >>> >>> >>>Wrong indentation in acpi_vgapost; I remember there was better patch >>>to fix this out there. >> >>Ok, I'll go through and fix any coding style problems. I've only seen >>older versions of this same patch, but if there is a better way I'd love >>to hear it. I'll google around a little more just in case. > > > It *was* version of the same patch, but it had codingstyle fixed, IIRC. Ok, thats an easy fix then :-) > > >>>Anyway, are you sure machine you have can't be fixed by any methods >>>listed in Doc*/power/video.txt? I guess they are preferable to >>>acpi_vgapost... >> >>Actually, this is one of the metholds listed in video.txt. Take a look >>at #7 ;-). I just tried acpi_sleep=s3_bios to see what that does, but >>just caused an instant reboot on resume. The only other solutions that >>works is to disable the frame buffer and use X or some other app to do >>the job as listed in #5 and #6, but something in kernel like this patch >>is required to be able to use the framebuffer. > > > I'd say that disabling framebuffer and going #5 or #6 is still > prefered, but given nice patch, I'll probably accept it. Oh, and do > note that (7) is listed near just one notebook. > > Pavel Well, before the patch is ever concidered for the mainline I think the issue with acquire_console_sem() causing the resume process to stop and wait for a key press would have to be addressed. This option could be listed for more notebooks with radeon cards, for example mine is an Dell Inspiron 8500. -- Michael Marineau [email protected] Oregon State University
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