[ltp] Ati x1400 -set--powerstate X corruption

[Jiang Qian]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:59:57AM -0700, WSR wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This is my first post to this list, so hello!  I am a new owner of a  
> T60, and this list looks like it is a great resource.
> 
> I have tried both SuSE 10.1 and Ubuntu Dapper on my new notebook, and  
> it seems like I am sticking with SuSE for the meantime due to  
> powersaved, which seems like it works pretty well.  The ATI  
> installation seems better and more thorough on SuSE.
> 
> A problem I am having with both installations is the ATI Powerplay  
> settings.  Some of the time, if I run aticonfig --set-powerstate=1 (to  
> lower the power consumtion, and save some battery life) it works  
> great.  I can get an extra hour of use with the low settings.
> 
> About half or more of the time when I run this command (OR when it  
> gets executed by acpi scripts OR powersaved) the screen goes white and  
> black and green and red all over, its completely corrupted and  
> distorted.  Nothing I can do will bring it back at this point, and  
> although the caps lock key is still working it seems X isn't  
> completely hung, after about another 10-12 seconds X is completely  
> hung and the only thing I can do is hard shutdown.
> 
> Dapper and Suse do not share the same Xorg version, so I think it is  
> either a hardware, or ati driver issue.
> 
> I have looked around as best as I can and can not seem to find anyone  
> else with this problem.
> 
> Thanks to anyone that has any advice on this matter~
You might want to file a bug report on ATI website. They seem to be 
quite responsive to these. Just go to ATI's website and click on drivers 
and click on linux. Poke around and you'll find bug report session.
Jiang
> 
> -Scott Rushforth
> wsr@rushforthnetworks.com
> 
> 
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