video=radeonfb being ignored on command line, Inspiron 600m suspend

Thomas J. Baker tjb at unh.edu
Mon Nov 8 14:53:32 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 11:09 -0500, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 09:37 -0500, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> > I'm attempting to get some version of suspend working on a Dell 600m
> > laptop. I've read that I first should be using the radeonfb device but
> > specifying "video=radeonfb" on the kernel command line doesn't seem to
> > take affect. I've rebuilt the initrd using --preload-module=radeonfb but
> > that doesn't seem to help. Modprobing radeonfb after boot does seem to
> > work though. I know I could just modprobe it in rc.modules and if that's
> > the only way, I'll do it but it seems like it should work similiar to
> > how vga=792 makes the vesafb work.
> > 
> > Any ideas on the radeonfb? Any hope of getting some type of suspend
> > working on an Inspiron 600m without custom kernels?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> 
> Fixed the subject since I butchered it.
> 

To answer myself, I needed to rebuild the kernel, applying a patch and
making the radeonfb compiled in and not a module. The patch, available
here: http://www.loria.fr/~thome/d600/ along with the acpi scripts makes
suspending and resume work 95% of the time. You also need to disable DRI
in the xorg.conf file.

tjb
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