On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:38 +0400, Yahya Mohammad wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a three year old Inspiron 6000 laptop with ATI Mobility Radeon > X300 graphics. I can't get the laptop to resume from suspend or > hibernate. I have gentoo-sources 2.6.23-r3, hibernate-script and > ati-drivers-8.40.4 installed.
I have an 3ish yr old Inspiron 9100, with an ATI Mobility 9600/9700 (RV350?). Apparently mine is a "special" case... > Both hibernate and suspend used to work a long time ago, but stopped > after a few `emerge -uDN world`s. The older package versions when it > used to work aren't in the portage tree anymore :( I've had mixed success over the last 3 years. Various versions and combinations of ati-drivers and kernels did / didn't work. Simple solution could be because some names have changed recently. (suspend2 > tuxonice, eg). The other think I can suggest is to try various versions of each. At least try ati-drivers 8.452 flavour, and some ati-drivers 8.35.x to 8.40.4 versions as well. There's also suspend2-sources. er, that's tuxonice-sources now. Try unstable sources and hibernate-script as well. Are you using suspend or suspend2? You might also want to check out radeontool. > Does the suspend/hibernate process produce logs anywhere? I don't see > anything in /var/log/* post the output when you get logging going from the other suggestion. > Will using open source drivers for my graphics chipset help in making > suspend/hibernate work? And how do they handle 3D for this chipset? I > don't play games, but it would be nice to use Compiz once it's stable in > portage. I think the X300 has decent success, unlike mine :( There was some help on the wiki... OK there are a few links you probably want to read: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Software_Suspend_v2 (your card is "known to work") http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XGL/Troubleshooting http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Video_Card_Support_Under_XGL > Thanks for any pointers. np, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser. -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
