[ltp] Z61p/Z61m experiences needed

[Johannes Boy]

Could you send me your suspen2 config files and your xorg.conf?
I failed to get that working, maybe your files can help me.

On 1/22/07, Stefan Armbruster <ml001@armbruster-it.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Suspend/Resume works fine on my Z61p (Core Duo, FireGL 5200) with the fglrx
> drivers. I just installed Kubuntu Edgy, added the packages
> xorg-driver-fglrx
> linux-restricted-modules-generic
> and changed xorg.conf to use the fglrx driver.
>
> For suspend/resume I've just added "ipw3945" to the list of modules
> in /etc/default/acpi-support. Suspend to RAM is associated the LID event, it
> works perfectly. I don't know about Suspend to Disk, since I'm not using it.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
>
> Am Montag, 22. Januar 2007 11:52 schrieb Ilias Stergiou:
> > Hamie wrote:
> > > On Friday 19 January 2007 14:24, Hamie wrote:
> > >> On Thursday 18 January 2007 17:58, George Ruinelli wrote:
> > >
> > > Oh... two more things...
> > >
> > > 1. The  tifm_ SD card modules stop the laptop from suspending.
> > > 2. The fglrx module also stops the laptop from suspending.
> > >
> > > So if you want to run as  alaptop & be able to suspend & resume you can't
> > > run accelerated graphics, nor can you access the SD card slot.
> > >
> > > Unloading the fglrx module for suspend isn't pracical. You might as well
> > > shutdown if you have to stop all your apps. And unloading the tifm_ & mmc
> > > modules on suspend doesn't help...
> > >
> > > Symptoms of the failed suspend is a console screen telling you the second
> > > CPU is bding suspended, and then it just stops & leaves the screen
> > > running after all the '===' have been written to the screen... You can't
> > > resume from there, the power scitch is the only way to get it back.
> > >
> > > All-in-all I'm a bit disappointed at the moment with it... But at least I
> > > can be reasonably sure it will get better (At least with the tifm_
> > > modules. The fglrx seems to be a dead horse). If xorg drivers could give
> > > me 1680x1050 resolution I'd run those, but they don't seem capable...
> > > Although maybe I could try updating to the latest & see if anything has
> > > changed since early Dec.
> >
> > Has anyone managed to get suspend and/or hibernate working with a FireGL
> > 5200 card using the proprietary driver? What about the Xorg fglrx driver?
> > I have a T60p with the FireGL 5250 and the proprietary driver and cannot
> > suspend or hibernate.
> > Would it work if I used the Xorg driver?
> >
> > I would appreciate if you provided any useful link on getting
> > suspend/hibernate work. It seems that the inet is full of messages with
> > (potential) problems / solutions, but I have not found any step-by-step
> > procedure to identify the problem.
> >
> > Ilias
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