[ltp] Power and graphics on T41p

[Alexander Naumann]

On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 14:54, Cameron McCormack wrote:
> Hi Calvin.
> 
> Calvin:
> > I'm a T40p owner, but I had almost the same problems as you have, so
> > here is what I found to work them out :
> > 
> > When I was using the ATI's fglrx module, I had the same "garbled screen"
> > problem, and I couldn't fix it, so I went back to the radeon module,
> > which works actually quite well. But a few days ago I read somewhere
> > that it may be the radeonfb framebuffer driver that's messing things up.
> > I'm now using the vesafb framebuffer driver, with vga=835 in my
> > lilo.conf file (for 1400x1050 in 24bits color depth), but I haven't
> > switched back to fglrx module yet.
> 
> Yeah I found this afternoon when I turned the console framebuffer off
> this helped X.  Though I don't use the console often, I might try
> vesafb.
> 
> > For power management, it depends on what you're using between ACPI and
> > APM. I first used ACPI, because I thought it would work better as it is
> > more recent than APM. I could get it to suspend properly by typing "echo
> > 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep", but it sometimes went wrong when resuming.
> > Hibernation didn't work at all though, displaying a lot of "Call trace"
> > lines and ending up by freezing the system sometimes.
> > 
> > Then I read this page, which is one of the best I've seen :
> > http://mike2k.de/t40.html. I think you should take a look at it !
> 
> Thanks for that, looks useful!
> 
> > I know only use APM for power management, and suspend/hibernation works
> > perfectly. I only miss ACPI for giving me the CPU temperature and some
> > detailed info about the battery status.
> 
> Yeah, it would be nice if ACPI worked. :/
> 
> > The above link also details how to set up your USB mouse / Trackpoint
> > for being able to use both of them, and it is also working very well for
> > me.
> 
> He doesn't seem to have a solution for if I leave the mouse plugged in
> at boot time.  I guess I'll just have to remember to leave it unplugged.
Disable USB mouse in your BIOS.
Alex

> -_-
> 
> > I hope this will help you !
> 
> Yes, thanks.  I will give the DRI driver from dri.sf.net a try.
> 
> Cameron
> 
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