[ltp] Z61p/Z61m experiences needed

[Johannes Boy]

> The proprietary driver downloaded from ati works OK. It identifies the
> chipset without any extra configuration.
> On my latest installation I
I was talking about the radeon aka open source module, since you asked
about the Xorg fglrx driver.

> even got XView working!!! I get 500-700 frames per second on the
> fglrx_gears tool and it works great with Xgl/Beryl/Gnome (the aticonfig
> tool fails at Xgl, stopping me add an external monitor/projector).
o_O
How? My xorg logfile always tells me no DRI with those fancy extensions.
But wait, I use compiz, shipped with fedora. I guess theres a difference?

> Are you sure it is the fglrx driver to blame?
vesa module -> suspend-to-disk works.
fglrx module -> suspend-to-disk fails sometimes, if it works, the
resume always fails.
All other settings have been left the same.

> > That was a while ago, though. Like 2 or 3 fgrlx driver versions back,
> > maybe it works now?
> > Remember to include
> >     ProcSetting extra_pages_allowance 20000
> > into the suspend2 config files and then just play around with the vbe
> > tool... I guess.
> I will try that, although the vbetool fails often (not well tested for
> 64 bits?)
I though the VBEtool just saves the video card's bios or buffer stuff
to disk and then dumps it back into the card after resumeing a session
(needed because some essential videcard setup steps are skipped on
resume). Which would be independed of 32bit or 64bit. Or maybe I'm
mixing things up?
I can't remember exactly how the vbetool is included into the suspend
script, but I think there are 2 ways to do this:
1) save the buffer/bios stuff on every suspend cycle
2) save the buffer/bios stuff once, then recycle this data on every resume
Maybe play around using those 2 methods.