On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, James Drabb wrote: > On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 10:50, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > > and it actually works with apm which I find mandatory on a laptop, unlike > > the propetary ati or nvidia drivers which will not survive a suspend. > > I am actually unable to get the back-light on my laptop to turn off > under FC1 when the screen blanks. Suspend also doesn't work, I tried it > once on my Vpr Matrix and the laptop would not wake up. It also would > not shutdown. I held down the power button for a good three minutes, > unplugged it, though nothing worked except removing the battery and > unplugging it. I won't be trying to suspend this laptop for a while : ) sounds like your laptop has very little apm support... that's fairly common on some varities of newer laptop as apm is slowly being excised in favor of acpi... it means if you want to suspnd you need to do so using swsusp instead of apm and requires a kernel patch but it does work... my sony vaio u3 with a radeon mobility m7 requires this... My dell inspiron 4150 also with a radeon mobility m7 does not and works fine with apm. suspending on the dell doesn't clobber opengl apps but does cause issues with xvideo so suspending in the middle of a dvd movie in vlc requires stoping the vido playback and restarting once the machine comes back. > Jim Drabb > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
