Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to RAM problem

[Mick]

On Saturday 30 September 2006 19:01, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 9/30/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 30 September 2006 08:52, Richard Fish wrote:
> > > On 9/30/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > > I suspect it is related to the framebuffer.  I have killed X and
> > > > tried it from the console, but it still crashed when it resumed.
> > >
> > > You'll probably have better luck getting resume to work in X...but
> > > again, what video chip/drivers are you using....also kernel version (I
> > > recommend 2.6.18)?
> >
> > I am running 2.6.17-gentoo-r8, but I have a spare vanilla 2.6.18-rc4
> > which I will try in a minute.  Meanwhile this is what I have configured
> > in the 2.6.17 kernel:
>
> How about in X...are you using the radeon or fglrx driver?  I think
> the fglrx driver has better support for suspend-to-ram, but I haven't
> used ATI since February, so hopefully someone else can confirm or
> deny.

I am using radeon.  I confirmed from google that this laptop appears to suffer 
from this problem (crashes when resumes from suspend-to-ram with framebuffer 
on) but the info was about two years old.  I hope things have moved since?
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Regards,
Mick