[ltp] Z61p/Z61m experiences needed

[Ilias Stergiou]

Johannes Boy wrote:
> As far as I know, the radeon module does not support the firegl 5200.
> Maybe you can get it to work by faking the chip id of a 5100 (which is
> supported). Havn't tried it yet, not sure if it could damage the card
> or whatever.
>
The proprietary driver downloaded from ati works OK. It identifies the 
chipset without any extra configuration. On my latest installation I 
even got XView working!!! I get 500-700 frames per second on the 
fglrx_gears tool and it works great with Xgl/Beryl/Gnome (the aticonfig 
tool fails at Xgl, stopping me add an external monitor/projector).
My major problem is with suspend/hibernate not working and I am 
concerned that none knows how to configure the firegl to allow 
suspend/hibernate.

> As for the suspend/hibernate stuff: I managed to get it to work in
> console... under X, it always hangs.
Are you sure it is the fglrx driver to blame?

> That was a while ago, though. Like 2 or 3 fgrlx driver versions back,
> maybe it works now?
> Remember to include
>     ProcSetting extra_pages_allowance 20000
> into the suspend2 config files and then just play around with the vbe
> tool... I guess.
I will try that, although the vbetool fails often (not well tested for 
64 bits?)

Thank you,
Ilias

>
>
> On 1/22/07, Ilias Stergiou <ilias@stergiou.name> wrote:
>> Hamie wrote:
>> > On Friday 19 January 2007 14:24, Hamie wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Thursday 18 January 2007 17:58, George Ruinelli wrote:
>> >>
>> > Oh... two more things...
>> >
>> > 1. The  tifm_ SD card modules stop the laptop from suspending.
>> > 2. The fglrx module also stops the laptop from suspending.
>> >
>> > So if you want to run as  alaptop & be able to suspend & resume you 
>> can't run
>> > accelerated graphics, nor can you access the SD card slot.
>> >
>> > Unloading the fglrx module for suspend isn't pracical. You might as 
>> well
>> > shutdown if you have to stop all your apps. And unloading the tifm_ 
>> & mmc
>> > modules on suspend doesn't help...
>> >
>> > Symptoms of the failed suspend is a console screen telling you the 
>> second CPU
>> > is bding suspended, and then it just stops & leaves the screen 
>> running after
>> > all the '===' have been written to the screen... You can't resume 
>> from there,
>> > the power scitch is the only way to get it back.
>> >
>> > All-in-all I'm a bit disappointed at the moment with it... But at 
>> least I can
>> > be reasonably sure it will get better (At least with the tifm_ 
>> modules. The
>> > fglrx seems to be a dead horse). If xorg drivers could give me 
>> 1680x1050
>> > resolution I'd run those, but they don't seem capable... Although 
>> maybe I
>> > could try updating to the latest & see if anything has changed 
>> since early
>> > Dec.
>> >
>> Has anyone managed to get suspend and/or hibernate working with a FireGL
>> 5200 card using the proprietary driver? What about the Xorg fglrx 
>> driver?
>> I have a T60p with the FireGL 5250 and the proprietary driver and cannot
>> suspend or hibernate.
>> Would it work if I used the Xorg driver?
>>
>> I would appreciate if you provided any useful link on getting
>> suspend/hibernate work. It seems that the inet is full of messages with
>> (potential) problems / solutions, but I have not found any step-by-step
>> procedure to identify the problem.
>>
>> Ilias
>>
>>
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