[ltp] ATI-drivers

[Florian Dorpmueller]

>I look especially forwardto powersave features in a future driver
>however, which along with - the temperature control problem will be
>taken care of.

Thatīs what I like to have on my R51 urgently too!

>
>For suspending, I have just flat out stopped using suspend-to-ram.  I
>just suspend to my swap partition every single time, so I can leave the
>machien in the state it was and continue where I was without having to
>kill X.  Takes a few extra cycles to save that much into swap, but hey
>its worth it to be able to keep using the machine where I left off next
>time its powered on.

Suspending with the radeon driver xfree86 or xorg works with the swsup2 from 
www.suspend2.net very well too - without the need of vbetool. With this 
driver I have no limitations for suspending to RAM and to disk.

Flori