acpi suspend on radeon with FC2 frustration...

[Per-Olof Litby - Reg'l Mgr Nordic/Baltic - Java System Software - Sun Microsystems]

Sean Estabrooks wrote:

>On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:34:34 -0400
>Aaron Bennett <aaron.bennett at olin.edu> wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>I'm going crazy trying to find a real way to make a Dell Latitude D600
>>suspend with FC2 and acpi...
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>>When I do echo 1 > /proc/acpi/sleep , X goes away and I get some console
>>messages like this... ( these are from dmesg because the console
>>messages go by too fast... )
>>
>>PM: Preparing system for suspend
>>Stopping tasks:
>>==========================================================================|
>>PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
>>Could not suspend device 0000:00:1d.7: error -5
>>PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
>>tg3: eth0: Link is down.
>>Restarting tasks... done
>>agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
>>agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
>>agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode
>>[drm] Loading R200 Microcode
>>tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
>>tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
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>>And then X comes back up as if nothing has happened!  I tried disabling
>>DRI and even setting the driver to vesa (neither of which option I like)
>>and it still happens the same way.
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>>I've found references to a myserious "make x and dri not suck with
>>radeon" patch, but I can't seem to find it.  I'm hoping to not have to
>>roll my own kernel because this is for a laptop distribution project --
>>it's going to find it's way onto ~150 laptops so I'm trying not to have
>>maintain my own kernel rpms.
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>Don't have any specific experience with your hardware but you could try
>these two things:
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>1.  Try values of 3 and 5 instead of 1 to echo to /proc/acpi/sleep
>    "1" isn't meant to suspend.
>2.  Switch to a text console before you use the echo
>3.  There have been some problems solved by setting the swappiness
>    value to 100 before trying to suspend:
>     echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
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>>Please help before I get more keyprint on my forehead from slamming it
>>against the keyboard.
>>
>>asdfsdafkljasdfjkl
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>>ouch. :-)
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I'm seeing the exact same behavior on my laptop. Using 3  instead of 1 
to echo to /proc/acpi/sleep - same thing. Using 5 does nothing.
Would love to see a solution to this.

/POL
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