[ltp] New ATI Driver

[Alex Deucher]

On 11/15/05, Mario Limonciello <mario.mailing@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jiang Qian wrote:
>
> >On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 08:42:59PM +0100, Michele Campeotto wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On 11/13/05, Mario Limonciello <mario.mailing@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>ATI's new driver (8.19.10) was recently released.  It introduces the
> >>>first support in fglrx for suspend/resume as well as PowerPlay.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>  Anybody successfully tried this on a PCI-E machine?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >Yes. On a T43 with radeon X300 and PCI-E. It works. If you find my
> >earlier post it resume with 3D, just xv doesn't work anymore without
> >restarting x. Small issues, though.
> >Jiang
> >
> >
> >>  mic
> >>
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> Whew, thats funky about xv not working without restarting X.  Well I
> think small price to pay for now if I am able to keep this fan off.

The overlay registers need to be restored on resume.  the xorg radeon
driver already does this.

Alex