Questions about vbestate
From: Stefan Dösinger <hidden>
Date: 2005-01-18 18:12:19
Hello, I am still investigating the suspend-to-ram issues with the radeon graphic cards. I am trying to get s3 working with the proprietary fglrx driver from ati. There is no problem with the kernel module, but switching back to the X server after resuming and post-ing the card the driver hangs. Bad so far. I investigated a little bit more: *switching to the console(no framebuffer), posting the card with one of the c000:3 callers and switching back to X causes a crash *If I save the card's state with vbesate before calling the post-routine and restoring the state afterwards makes switching back to X work again. *BUT: If I switch to the console, save the state, go to suspend, wake up the system and restore the vbestate fglrx crashes again. So my question is: Are there some settings which might get lost during and S3 which are NOT restored by vbestate? I am using fglrx V.8.8.25 with X.Org 6.8.1. I will also write a mail to ATI to help them fix their driver. They say that they are aware of this problem and haven't found a solution yet. Note: S3 works fine for me with the gpl "radeon" driver from X.Org. I am trying to get fglrx working because I need it for gaming and I don't want to switch the konfiguration permanently. It would also help users with a radeon
=9200 card.
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