[ltp] ACPI S3 power drain and Thinkpad Wiki/radeonfb

[Clark Williams]

--=-9aZiJeWNXcU5GIaIgoKr
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 22:49 +0100, honey@gneek.com wrote:
> Clark, Tino and Michael thanks for your responses.  Sounds like I
> have three different options to try!  But none of you mentioned those
> messages I get at modprobe time.  Does anyone know if they are a
> serious problem?  Or are they because radeonfb can't be loaded
> because vesafb's already kicked in?
>=20
> Anyway, to your responses:
>=20
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Clark Williams wrote:
>=20
> > I think that loading radeonfb from rc.local is a bit too late. Try
> > doing what I did, which is add a script that loads the framebuffer
> > early in the run-level.
>=20
> Hmm, but isn't rc.local run before X kicks in?  It's
> /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S99local after all, and inittab determines when the
> rc scripts and X get started by init.  And surely going to runlevel 3,
> removing and reinserting the module would ensure it was early enough?
> Thanks for the script anyway, I'll look - but I'm still concerned
> about those errors.  Do they not show there's a problem at module
> insertion time?

Well, I'm not a graphics kernel guy, but it looks to me like someone is
already using the adapter. Remember that we have the wonderful graphical
login screen that's going to run X behind your back. That's why I wanted
to load the framebuffer module early in the init level sequence, to get
to the hardware before anyone else does.=20

<DOH!> (whack's self in head). I remember now, that I *disabled* the
graphical boot stuff on my system (ok, I'm sort of a graphics luddite).
I wonder if you're seeing that because an X driver has already grabbed
access to the adapter.=20

You might try booting without the 'rhgb' on the grub command line...

Clark
--=20
Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>

--=-9aZiJeWNXcU5GIaIgoKr
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc
Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQBC2DH7Hyuj/+TTEp0RArb3AJ40JgrO3jr2xJ/YfIYCVu9MYTTzkACgg/ZJ
OWCvkslRD8oCY2zGGnbI+/w=
=coS5
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--=-9aZiJeWNXcU5GIaIgoKr--