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

[Hamie]

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.
>
>Has anyone already tried supend (ACPI) with the new driver?
>
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Hardly worked at all for me.

I diligently put XFree back (I run XOrg now) and installed the new 
drivers. Build the fglrx module, and even re-booted :) It came up OK, 
but has severe probalmes trying to switch back to the console (I run fb 
console @ 1600x1200 because I like the 200x75 text display I get). When 
switching to the console the first time I got lots of garbage in the top 
half of the screen. That soon scrolled off. But when switching back to 
X, it just went to shite... Like someone had randomly moved individual 
pixel rows left & right.

Trying to exit it (CTRL-BACKSPACE) was less than successful. Random 
garbage again & a complete lockup. I just switched back to XOrg after 
that. The speed increase on OpenGL apps etc just isn't worth the 
instability. If they'd open-source the driver at least someone could try 
& fix these problems. I'm not really sure ATI care much more than paying 
lip service. Otherwise people wouldn't have so many problems... It is 
after all designed for chipsets targeted at laptop as well as 
desktops... People do SUSPEND laptops after all...

Oh I did try suspending... Again... I run ACPI... Screen goes to garbage 
when switching to the console to do the suspend. Then it hung... Power 
switch time again.

Meanwhile the ONLY problems I have with XOrg drivers is the 3d speed. 
Maybe one-day I'll find a laptop I like with a gfx chipset that the 
manufacturer don't think it is necessary to keep the interface a secret.