[ltp] linux t41 consumes 2 watts on suspend

[Marius Gedminas]

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On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 04:51:27PM -0700, Dan Sawyer wrote:
> That is now making more sense. DRM is getting loaded and preventing=20
> radeonfb from being loaded.

No, both can peacefully coexist, at least with Radeon 7500 (I had
exactly the same video card in a T42).

I once even ran 'modprobe radeonfb' from an xterm, expecting video
driver confusion, and was surprised when nothing bad happened.

>> Actually I recommend to compile it into the kernel. And make sure that
>> no other framebuffer device is loaded. Additional benefit is a 128x48
>> text console.

Good point.  Ubuntu didn't load any other framebuffer drivers for me so
I could just modprobe radeonfb at any point.  If Fedora defaults to
something like vesafb, this might not work.

But it's simpler to try the modprobe and see if it would work for you.
Faster than recompiling a kernel.

Marius Gedminas
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