[ltp] New ATI Driver

[D. Sen]

I just tried the new ATI driver and I didnt have any success resuming 
from a suspend to RAM. I tried it twice and the result was a lock up 
after resuming. All I see after resume is "inu" on the screen.

X: xorg (6.8.2)
Linux Kernel: 2.6.13
PM: ACPI
Machine: T42p

Any ideas? I would love to get ACPI suspend/resume (to memory) working 
with DRI support.

The open-source radeon driver works flawlessly as far ass the 
suspend/resume is concerned - but without DRI.

Any help/hints will be much appreciated.

DS

Mario Limonciello wrote:
> I'm shocked and appalled that this hasn't been mentioned yet on this list!
> 
> ATI's new driver (8.19.10) was recently released.  It introduces the 
> first support in fglrx for suspend/resume as well as PowerPlay.
> 
> Once you install it, you can configure your settings for Power 
> Management with the provided aticonfig utility.
> 
> aticonfig --lsp
> 
> Will list your possible states to be in.
> 
> ati-config --set-powerstate=NUMBER
> 
> Will set your video card to this state.
> As of now this can be set to be defaulted in xorg with an option in your 
> xorg.conf file, or you can change it on the fly using the aticonfig 
> utility.
> 
> Combine this with CPU frequency scaling and this is the first time that 
> my r50p thinkpad sounds like it does in windows.  My fan is off most of 
> the time, and when its not, its almost inaudible.
> 
> 
> As for suspend/resume.  I use regular ol' software suspend, and have no 
> troubles with the defaults that Ubuntu/breezy or Ubuntu/dapper provide.  
> There has been some talk that I have read however, about software 
> suspend2 not working correctly, and some other chatter that vbetool 
> SHOULDN't be used.  So, obviously, being the first release your mileage 
> may vary.
> While on this subject, switching VT's finally works again too.  If you 
> have scripts that need to swtich out of X, or you need to kill some 
> memory hogging app in X, you can switch around and back without 
> corruption or anything.
> 
> I look forward to reading more success stories :)