[ltp] Re: New ati-drivers out there

[Pezhman Givy]

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After commiting a bug report to ATI Customer Care on non working
suspend/resume with fglrx driver I received almost immediately the response:

"We do not provide tech support on laptops/notebooks, and mobility
products, nor do we support Linux Operating Systems."

For me it's the last time I ever purchased an ATI or ATI inside product.

Pezhman G.


David A. Desrosiers wrote:
|
|>> ACPI does work with fglrx. You need "radeontool" to switch off/on the
|>> backlight and "vbetool" to save/restore the video state. See attached
|>> acpi action script.
|
|
|> okay, but with all tools (radeontool / vbetool), you'll have problems:
|> X crashes sometimes after resume, always higher temperature => higher
|> power consumption!!!
|
|
|     Let me ask something which might seem obvious to some...
|
|     Why can't this JUST WORK RIGHT, instead of having to have little
| stop/start scripts, shims, and other hardware/kernel-based tweaks to get
| a functioning video card with proper ACPI support?
|
|     Really, this is EXACTLY why people are giving up on Linux in crowds.
|
|     I'm also speaking as an Open Source developer myself, and while I
| understand the blockheaded vendor issues, it really doesn't help the
| case if we continue to purchase their hardware and support their bottom
| line. I've been fighting it with Palm and related mobile partners since
| 1997 or so. If people didn't buy hardware that vendors refused to
| support the OS on, then they might get a clue and change their tactics.
| If it doesn't hurt them in the pocketbook, they have no reason to change.
|
|     Its getting worse and worse every day. These workarounds were great
| in the early 90's, when it was "cool" to hack on hardware and get things
| working, but come on... this is 13+ years later, and we still can't get
| functioning video + suspend working in Linux?
|
|     Pfft.
|
|
| David A. Desrosiers
| desrod@gnu-designs.com
| http://gnu-designs.com
|

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