On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 11:15 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > > On 16.05.2007 16:33, Richard Hughes wrote: > > New in Fedora 7 we have the new pm-utils and hal-info dmi based matching > > of suspend quirks. We are doing finer matching to the laptop make and > > model, to make suspend (and more importantly resume) work for more > > people. > > > > What this means: > > > > * Some machines that suspended in FC6 might not work in F7 > > * Lots of machines that did not suspend in FC6 might work in F7 > > > > So, if you have to edit a file or add stuff to grub to get suspend > > working in F7, that's a bug. This stuff should just work on the majority > > or laptops. > > > > To help, and to try and make clearer all this new stuff, I've written a > > few pages here: > > http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/temp/quirk/quirk-intro.html > > Some comments: > > The page > http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/temp/quirk/quirk-debug.html > only asks "Are you using the proprietary NVIDIA driver?" -- what about > the proprietary ATI driver? Good point, I'll add that too. What's the name of the proprietary driver in xorg.conf? > You're not asking if people use a plain vga consile (vga=0 or vga=normal > on the kernel command line -- default in Fedora) or a framebuffer > console (vga=792 or something like that -- default in Ubuntu, OpenSuse, > no idea about Mandriva). Sure, I need to debug this myself. I'll add this to the document. > Further: Both details mentioned above according to my tests on several > laptops heavily influence if laptops suspends or what quicks they need. > So those informations thus IMHO should be tracked in the fdi files. > Otherwise we soon might end in situations like "my laptops suspends fine > under Fedora with the fdi file, but does not under OpenSuse (or vice versa). Sure. Which would be bad. Thanks for your mail. Richard. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
