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 -- ======================================================================= | Thomas Baker email: tjb@xxxxxxx | | Systems Programmer | | Research Computing Center voice: (603) 862-4490 | | University of New Hampshire fax: (603) 862-1761 | | 332 Morse Hall | | Durham, NH 03824 USA http://wintermute.sr.unh.edu/~tjb | =======================================================================