APM/ACPI on ThinkPads [ Was: Fedora Core 3 Bug Status - 2004-10-11]

[Philip Balister]

for Radeon laptops, it appears you need to patch the radeon-fb driver
and build it into the kernel as a module. This should get suspend
working, well resume working that is. I haven't tried this, but if
someone needs the info, I can look it up.

Philip


 On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 01:53, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 12 October 2004 12:53, Satish Balay wrote:
> > > Personally I'd like to see APM be a blocker issue - as it worked for
> > > all previous fedora/redhat (up to 6.2?) versions. (ACPI didn't really
> > > work well before - so I'm not really comited to it)
> > >
> > > I guess I would have to install the kernel from kernel.org to see if
> > > the APM problem is an upstream issue..
> > 
> > Last time I checked, it was a radeon driver issue.
> 
> I have problems on both a 600E & T40 sugesting some common breakage. -
> However the behavior is slightly different - so it could be a
> combination of issues. (The 600E has NeoMagic chip whereas the T40 has
> a radeon-9000)
> 
> Satish