[ltp] t41p: supsend with fglrx 3.11.1 finally works!

[Elliot F.]

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 12:39 +0100, Steve Harris wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 11:48:50 +0200, Arndt Twickel wrote:
> > Great news: With the new ati fglrx driver (3.11.1) suspend to ram
> > (apm) finally works!! Additionally Hibernation only takes a third of
> > the time it used to before.
> 
> Yep, can confirm that, just got it to work here too.
>  
> > Has anyone already tried supend (ACPI) with the new driver?
> 
> I couldn't get it to work.
> 
> Got a garbled screen and dead keybaord, just as before. However, its
> possible that the APM support for the framebuffer card will mean the APM
> suspend is now usable for me. I was getting far too much battery drain
> before.
> 
> My setup is
> 
> Fedora Core 2
> ATI's 3.11.1 RPM + FC2 patch from older driver (botched to work with 3.11.1)
> whatever-bios-it-came-with
> 
> Is it worth upgrading the BIOS if theres a newer one, and I can I do it
> without installing windows?
> 
> - Steve

Do you gentlemen have .configs and/or XF86Config-4's?  Are you using
2.6.6, or 2.6.7?  Are you both using FC2?

I tried twice, once getting it to hang immediately when I tried to
suspend, and once when I tried to resume after suspending.  Any tricks?

Elliot F.