[ltp] Halleluja, it actually WORKS! (Re: New ATI Driver)

[Niel Lambrechts]

Fionn Behrens wrote:
> On So, 2005-11-13 at 02:11 -0600, 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.
>>     
>
> Heaven and hell, I cant believe it!
> Its not only there but it works, too!
>   
Suspend-and-resume from disk (to DRI-enabled X) works flawlessly on SUSE 
10 Pro on my Thinkpad R50P.

As a tip to others: ensure you rmmod the old fglrx module before 
upgrading/trying to use the new version, it struck me that this could 
easily be a problem for over-anxious upgraders!

I also commented vbetool and a dummy X startup in my suspend scripts, 
everything worked first time round afterwords.

Two years later, and ATI finally gives us an acceptable driver for 
notebooks. WOOHOO!

Niel

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