I'm attempting to get some version of suspend working on a Dell 600m laptop. I've read that I first should be using the radeonfb device but specifying "video=radeonfb" on the kernel command line doesn't seem to take affect. I've rebuilt the initrd using --preload-module=radeonfb but that doesn't seem to help. Modprobing radeonfb after boot does seem to work though. I know I could just modprobe it in rc.modules and if that's the only way, I'll do it but it seems like it should work similiar to how vga=792 makes the vesafb work.
Any ideas on the radeonfb? Any hope of getting some type of suspend working on an Inspiron 600m without custom kernels?
Thanks,
tjb
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 09:37 -0500, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
I'm attempting to get some version of suspend working on a Dell 600m laptop. I've read that I first should be using the radeonfb device but specifying "video=radeonfb" on the kernel command line doesn't seem to take affect. I've rebuilt the initrd using --preload-module=radeonfb but that doesn't seem to help. Modprobing radeonfb after boot does seem to work though. I know I could just modprobe it in rc.modules and if that's the only way, I'll do it but it seems like it should work similiar to how vga=792 makes the vesafb work.
Any ideas on the radeonfb? Any hope of getting some type of suspend working on an Inspiron 600m without custom kernels?
Thanks,
Fixed the subject since I butchered it.
tjb
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 11:09 -0500, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 09:37 -0500, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
I'm attempting to get some version of suspend working on a Dell 600m laptop. I've read that I first should be using the radeonfb device but specifying "video=radeonfb" on the kernel command line doesn't seem to take affect. I've rebuilt the initrd using --preload-module=radeonfb but that doesn't seem to help. Modprobing radeonfb after boot does seem to work though. I know I could just modprobe it in rc.modules and if that's the only way, I'll do it but it seems like it should work similiar to how vga=792 makes the vesafb work.
Any ideas on the radeonfb? Any hope of getting some type of suspend working on an Inspiron 600m without custom kernels?
Thanks,
Fixed the subject since I butchered it.
To answer myself, I needed to rebuild the kernel, applying a patch and making the radeonfb compiled in and not a module. The patch, available here: http://www.loria.fr/~thome/d600/ along with the acpi scripts makes suspending and resume work 95% of the time. You also need to disable DRI in the xorg.conf file.
tjb
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Thomas J. Baker