[ltp] T43p with new radeon driver crashes.

[Igor V. Rafienko]

on Aug 31, 2007, 09:53, Raanan Manor wrote:

> So i am left with three options -
>
> 1) use fglrx and loose suspend-to-ram.
> 2) use the radeon driver and get freezes.
> 3) loose the 3D desktop.
>
> The choice between bad and worse.


You forgot "4) use fglrx and have non-functioning on-the-fly external 
display switching". Grrr!

Recent fglrx drivers has drawing issues/artefacts with xorg-1.3 (emacs and 
xterm trigger the behaviour at the bottom of the screen). fglrx from 8.36 
or thereabout breaks suspend-to-ram (suprisingly removing alsa before 
suspend helps). But, it provides 3D acceleration and the power drain is 
lower (about 1.5W, I think).

The choices are not that great, no. If you do NOT need 3D stuff, radeon is 
a good choice. IMVHO





ivr
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