[ltp] IBM T42 DRI Suspend Problem

[Osho GG]

On Saturday 22 January 2005 6:32 am, Konstantin Filtschew wrote:
> hi,
>
> the fault I fixed was in the radeon driver included in x.org. But I
> know, that there is an issue with the new fglrx driver. Some people say,
> you have to use the old one.
>

I have run into the same problem on T42p with ACPI suspend to RAM and ATI's 
fglrx drivers.

With X.org 6.8.*, older fglrx drivers do not work. Only the latest one 
(8.8.25) fglrx works with X.org 6.8.*.

The DRI-suspend problem is well-known. It is mentioned as one of the issues 
with the release notes of ATI's 8.8.25 drivers as well. There are only a few 
options.

1. Use APM and not ACPI if it works for you. ATI's drivers supposedely support 
suspend/resume with APM but not in ACPI.
2. Do, init 3 before ACPI suspend - this is not really practical because one 
does not to close X just to suspend to RAM.
3. Downgrade to XFree86 4.3.99 or X.org 6.7. I *think* ATI's drivers support 
suspend/resume with that.
4. Wait for ATI's next linux drivers that are due sometime in February. They 
may or may not have ACPI support :).

Osho

> You can find a lot of useful information in the gentoo forum. On this
> list are not many use who care about dri support as me to. Try
> http://forums.gentoo.org, there are a lot use, who need dri with fglrx
>
> :)
>
> Greetz
>
> Konstantin
>
>
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 01:53:59 +0100
>
> Emmanuel SCHRODER <emms@free.fr> wrote:
> > Hello Konstantin,
> >
> > It's been a while since you wrote this message. Thanks to the new ATI
> > driver I've been able to install xorg and use the fglrx driver.
> > Unfortunately I still have an issue in resuming from a suspend when
>
> DRI
>
> > is enabled.
> >
> > Could you tell me how you fixed it?
> >
> > EmS.
> >
> > Konstantin Filtschew wrote:
> > >hi,
> > >
> > >you have to install the fglrx drivetrs, try to take the newest from
> > >www.ati.com.
> > >
> > >The problem is well known, I know how to fix it in xorg-x11, but
>
> maybe
>
> > >not on xfree86.
> > >
> > >If you have a running x-windows-system, then it'll be possible to
>
> help
>
> > >you.
> > >
> > >Try to reinstall you'r x-windows-system, if it's broken.
> > >
> > >Try to find out which version of xfree you have, the log file should
> > >help you /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> > >
> > >
> > >Greetz
> > >
> > >Konstantin
> > >
> > >On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 12:35:55 +0100
> > >
> > >Emmanuel SCHRODER <emms@free.fr> wrote:
> > >>Hello all,
> > >>
> > >>I'm running kernel 2.6.9 on a IBM T42 with Ubuntu linux. My video
>
> card
>
> > >>is a radeon 9600 using Ubuntu's Radeon FGLRX driver. My XFree86
> > >>version seems to be :4.3.0.1 / 15 August 2003 (So old???!)
> > >>
> > >>I'm trying to get my suspend2ram work. So far I'm able to suspend
>
> very
>
> > >>quickly but I resume my screen is all messed up.
> > >>Through my test I found the problem : When I disable DRI extension
>
> it
>
> > >>works properly.
> > >>
> > >>Unfortunately without DRI and thus no hardware acceleration my X is
> > >>very slow. I'd like to get this DRI driver properly working.
> > >>
> > >>According to DRI website the knew there was a problem with
> > >>SuspendResume and DRI drivers, the latest version should be fixed -
> > >>btw, I could not find a date so I don't know if this bug is out of
> > >>date or recent.
> > >>
> > >>So I thought I had to upgrade DRI, I downloaded the DRI debian
>
> package
>
> > >>which are:
> > >>
> > >>drm-trunk-module-src_2004.11.23-1_all.deb
> > >>xlibmesa-gl1-dri-trunk_2004.11.23-1_i386.deb
> > >>xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk_2004.11.23-1_i386.deb
> > >>
> > >>I did a dpkg -i on each of them. I tried to restart X, which gave me
> > >>an error message telling me that my driver FGLRX does not exist. It
> > >>seems that I removed/broken it my installation the DRI package.
> > >>
> > >>Is there any out there able to help me?
> > >>
> > >>Emmanuel
> > >>--
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Osho