[ltp] High power use during suspend to RAM (T40 2373-A1U). I know, I know

[TheDave]

OK. My boot line is doing a great job of changing resolution.

I use video=radeonfb:1400x1050-32@60
It works like a champ.

I'll give the --preload a shot.

Thanks,
Dave.

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 18:24 +0000, honey wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, G. David Atkins II wrote:
> 
> > I did the stuff from:
> >        http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_high_power_drain_in_ACPI_sleep
> >
> > Specifically:
> >        # mkinitrd --with=radeonfb \
> >        /boot/initrd-2.6.13-1.1532_FC4_radeonfb.img `uname -r`
> 
> Try --preload=radeonfb instead?  Also, unsure if you stated your
> kernel boot line, but make sure you don't start another framebuffer -
> your syslog messages indicate to me that the area radeonfb's trying
> to occupy is already taken.  So no vga= options, and throw in a
> "radeonfb" for good measure.  Obviously ensure the force_sleep line
> is still there in modprobe.conf too.
> 
> As a word of encouragement I have it working fine in FC4 after the
> above measures - the only other issue is, as has been mentioned, your
> model doesn't work with it.  But I'm skeptically of reports that any
> (at least) T* models don't, honestly.
> 
> In return, if you can suggest how I can *change* radeonfb resolution,
> I'd be grateful!  As discussed before here, I've tried everything
> I've read:
> 
> video=radeonfb:1024x768
> video=radeonfb:mode:1024x768-24@75
> 
> and hardcoding resolution in modprobe.conf - none work on Fedora Core
> 4.  Yet to try on Ubuntu Breezy.  Fedora kernels compile radeonfb as
> a kernel module, for interested parties: I haven't tested with it
> built in (and don't want to rebuild just to change resolution).
> 
> Honey