Hi!

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Even if one doesn't use the fb console at all, radeonfb apparently 
is still required on some ThinkPad models to work around BIOS bugs:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_high_power_drain_in_ACPI_sleep#Radeon_GPU_not_powered_off

s2ram should be able to work around this, it has parts from 
radeontool. (suspend.sf.net).

i'm wondering, do you have any idea how Windows handles the 
suspend/resume quirks problem area? Do they "curse BIOS vendors and 

Windows actually have (kernel) graphics drivers that know how to
resume the video. If you boot save mode, they go w/o graphics drivers,
and have similar problems to us.

btw., the s2ram database seems quite a bit spotty:

 $ ./s2ram -n
 Machine is unknown.
 This machine can be identified by:
     sys_vendor   = "System manufacturer"
     sys_product  = "System Product Name"
     sys_version  = "System Version"
     bios_version = "ASUS A8N-E ACPI BIOS Revision 1008"

 $ ./s2ram -n
 Machine is unknown.
 This machine can be identified by:
    sys_vendor   = "Hewlett-Packard "
    sys_product  = "compaq nx9030 (PG630ET#ABD)       "
    sys_version  = "Rev 1           "
    bios_version = "F.15    "
 See http://en.opensuse.org/S2ram for details.

Desktops are the problem; but that nx9030 should be reasonably easy to
add.

even at the link above i didnt find any clear algorithm about how to 
extend the quirks-list and the white-list - while i expect that most 
people experience what i did: that s2ram doesnt know their boxes. 
(otherwise they would not visit that URL at all i suspect)

Did you get options for s2ram that work on your systems? Mail them to
seife@suse.de, and he'll extend the whitelist ;-). In the meantime,
just use -f <whatever>
								Pavel
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