APM/ACPI on ThinkPads [ Was: Fedora Core 3 Bug Status - 2004-10-11]

[Rui Miguel Seabra]

I'm trying to add that framebuffer patch to -603

I hope resuming works from then on :)

Rui

On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 16:29 -0400, Philip Balister wrote:
> I built the kernel (from the 521 rpm) adding the radeonfb-4g patch from:
> http://www.loria.fr/~thome/d600/ and changing the config so radeonfb was
> bult in (not a module). I added the patch to the specfile and used
> rpmbuild -bp to configure the source (also edited the i686 config file)
> 
> I can now go in and out of S3 succesfully. I don't know what the larger
> consequences of these changes are on other pieces of hardware. I have a
> Dell D600.
> 
> Philip
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 07:48, Philip Balister wrote:
> > for Radeon laptops, it appears you need to patch the radeon-fb driver
> > and build it into the kernel as a module. This should get suspend
> > working, well resume working that is. I haven't tried this, but if
> > someone needs the info, I can look it up.
> > 
> > Philip
> > 
> > 
> >  On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 01:53, Satish Balay wrote:
> > > On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tuesday 12 October 2004 12:53, Satish Balay wrote:
> > > > > Personally I'd like to see APM be a blocker issue - as it worked for
> > > > > all previous fedora/redhat (up to 6.2?) versions. (ACPI didn't really
> > > > > work well before - so I'm not really comited to it)
> > > > >
> > > > > I guess I would have to install the kernel from kernel.org to see if
> > > > > the APM problem is an upstream issue..
> > > > 
> > > > Last time I checked, it was a radeon driver issue.
> > > 
> > > I have problems on both a 600E & T40 sugesting some common breakage. -
> > > However the behavior is slightly different - so it could be a
> > > combination of issues. (The 600E has NeoMagic chip whereas the T40 has
> > > a radeon-9000)
> > > 
> > > Satish
> 
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