STR working out of the box

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 15:28 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 13:49 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > David Zeuthen (davidz at redhat.com) said: 
> > > > >  3. vbetool is kind of evil; it's a workaround for broken video
> > > > >     drivers and the mess that is X.org / kernel interaction wrt.
> > > > >     to video hardware (so, vbetool becomes the 3th or 4th player
> > > > >     directly touching hardware. Yay!). I expect we need to add
> > > > >     radeontool at some point too.
> > > > 
> > > > Note that vbetool is only for certain cards. There are other tools
> > > > for other cards.
> > > 
> > > Apart from radeontool?
> > 
> > radeontool/vbetool should cover ATI & nVidia. Hopefully everyone
> > else doesn't need them. :)
> 
> vbetool seems to work fine on my laptop, with a Radeon 9700 Mobility. I
> had to switch to a VT and back to get X displaying properly, but I had
> the same issue with the "video_post" tool some Intel guys gave me.
> 

I thought the suspend script that I posted took care of this?

Btw, I've got an update of all this (removing the white lists, moving
what action to do into battstat applet) that I will post in a few days
so stay tuned.

Cheers,
David