On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 02:15:34PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 00:58, Miguel Sousa Filipe wrote: > > Well.. I just saw this in freenode IRC network: > > > > ~ iBook3 suspend patch: http://people.debian.org/~hafre/radeonfb.c.diff > > > > I guess suspend is now possible in linux! :-p > > What that patch does is basically to _not_ suspend the video chip, which > is not really a good solution. It may or may not work and may or may not > screw up the chip's engine since I suspect the PMU actually remove the > clock from the M7 during sleep (and possibly clock & power from the > video RAM). Also, that means you'll eat a significant amount of power > during sleep. > > Note that I don't know what dreamind smoked, but I do not have a working > fix for that ;) I may be able to hack something if I get a chance to > play on an M7 based machine for a few days, but so far that have not > been the case. Note that ATI is still supposed to provide the necessary > information (at least they told us they would do so) soon.
Thanks for the clarification. Christophe -- Christophe Barb� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. -- Albert Einstein
