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

[linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org]

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Hamie 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?
> 
> Hardly worked at all for me.

Experience echoed here.  On my T40 with Xorg drivers (from Fedora
Core 2) after a bit of a fight I had ACPI working perfectly for
suspend-to-ram (S3) and suspend-to-disk (S4, using swsusp).  I just
tried the ATI fglrx 3.11.1 drivers, what a disaster - neither sleep
state work, resulting in a complete hang, and switching to console
and back breaks the display - back-lit and blank.

> 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.

I haven't used the ATI RPMs before, not being a great 3D user - and
what a poor experience it is.  Left lots of rubbish around after an
rpm -e, and seemed to do a "rm *fglrx* in /usr/X11R6/lib/, removing
another version of the libGL library I'd saved with this in the name.
Had to eventually resort to various rpm -qV's and find's to make sure
I'd cleaned up properly after removal.

Won't be trying that again soon - I only wanted to play tuxracer :)