[ltp] RE: Resume from Suspend to RAM not possible after BIOS upgrade (R50P)

[henry ritzlmayr]

>Hi,

>henry ritzlmayr schrieb:

>> This is more an Information than a question. I recently upgraded from
>> BIOS v2.10 to v3.15 and from ECP v2.04 to v3.04. After that Resuming
>> from suspend mode was not possible any more. The screen was black after
>> resuming. I could however connect to the system through ssh and shut id
>> down cleanly. Since I wanted suspend/resume I downgraded to BIOS v2.10
>> and ECP v2.04. Since than suspend/resume works like a charm again.

>This may be a known problem with some workaround. But what R50p do you 
>_exactly_ have? Important is to know which kind of graphics-adapter you 
>have.

>Let's put it this way: If you have an intel extreme graphics 2 and 
>"black" means the LCD is as black as not powered (no backlight on) you 
>might try vbetool to save and restore your graphic-adapters setting.

>There was a thread about this just some weeks ago. Have a look in the 
>archives.

>Bye
>Jan

R50P-Model 1832-22G
I didn´t know that there are R50p out there witch don´t use the ATI Fire GL Card.
Anyhow here is my lspci line: ATI Technologies Inc M10 NT [FireGL MobilityT2] (rev 80)

Black means really black. It is not only that the backlight is turned off 
(checked with radeontool), it is really black(dead). 

The behavior witch I was describing was tested with:
Fedora Core 3
Kernel: kernel-2.6.9-1.724
	kernel-2.6.11-1.14
	kernel-2.6.11-1.27
Xorg: xorg-6.8.1-12
      xorg-6.8.2-1.FC3.13

always using the radeon driver. Never ever tested the prop. ati driver since they
don´t support suspend at all - witch I think is one of the most important features 
when it comes to notebooks. In every configuration it behaves the same.

Henry