Suspend to RAM works, but no wake up. ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M (rev 64) video card
Hi
Here is another set of mails, that I sent to the XFree86 mail list, and this gentleman below advised me to something, that didnt work unfortunately, but while trying, I realized another thing. It is at the bottom of this email.
Thanks
Ben
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My Sony Vaio laptop has a strange problem. It has the ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M (rev 64) video card, and first of all X was really hard to make work. Only the latest 4.5 works fine with this, and some old ones, like 4.0 or 4.2. My disribution was Sarge Debian, and it has 4.3 by default. That doesnt work at all at 1024x480 resolution. It was all greyish even with the right modeline. ANyways, 4.5 works fine for
Yes. Only in 4.5 does the driver correctly grok the mode on server entry for all currently known cases.
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me. What is the problem, that when I go to suspend with ACPI (S3-RAM), the display wont power off completely, just it gets dimmed, but some text remains on the LCD. For the "untrained" eyes, it seems off, but when I tilt the LCD, I can see it is on and has text on it. Also, it is making a buzzing sound, so it eats battery.
What can I do to turn off the display? Maybe I can inegrate the solution to my suspend script, so that it turns the LCD off and then suspends.
The server currently does not have any ACPI framework. Assuming you're running Linux, you'll probably need to configure acpid to issue
chvt 1on S3 events (perhaps S1 & S2 also), andchvt 7(or whatever) on return to S0.
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A possible alternative is to switch use APM instead, but that's being deprecated.
Marc.
Hello
Thanks for the help. Unfortunately I dont want to go to use APM as that is depreciated as you said.
What you said about the chvt, I was really happy to hear, and I tried, but it does not work unfortunately. Same as before, buzzing sound and the display shows writing. (UPDATE: not only writing, but also vertical lines, about 50 of them, right next to eachother, and horizontal lines, about 3-4 of them far apart.) But this writing is very hard to see. Not obvious at all. I realized it after 2 months of using it, so you can see how dimmed it is. Also, another very interesting thing, that when I open the lid, and the laptop is still asleep (it needs button press to wake), as I said, I can see the writing from an angle, but only if I turn the LCD to the left, or right, and get some sunshine on it, or light. Now, when I press the button (space usually), it starts to wake up, and the first moment when I press the button, I think the LCD goes off for a moment only, and then wakes up. Why I think this? I checked carefuly, and before I press the space bar, the text is on the display, and when I press the SPACE bar, it gets erased, and the screen is even darker, but only for a second or less, and then backlight comes back on.
Another thing to note, is that the text I see on the display looks something like this:
******************IRQ Something************
*************Stopping tasks................
SOmething like that. And again, when I press the space bar, it goes away, and finally the screen looks to be off for a moment.
Thanks
Ben
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