On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Benedek Frank wrote:
My Sony Vaio laptop has a strange problem. It has the ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M (rev 64) video card, and first of all X was really hard to make work. Only the latest 4.5 works fine with this, and some old ones, like 4.0 or 4.2. My disribution was Sarge Debian, and it has 4.3 by default. That doesnt work at all at 1024x480 resolution. It was all greyish even with the right modeline. ANyways, 4.5 works fine for
Yes. Only in 4.5 does the driver correctly grok the mode on server entry for all currently known cases.
me. What is the problem, that when I go to suspend with ACPI (S3-RAM), the display wont power off completely, just it gets dimmed, but some text remains on the LCD. For the "untrained" eyes, it seems off, but when I tilt the LCD, I can see it is on and has text on it. Also, it is making a buzzing sound, so it eats battery.
What can I do to turn off the display? Maybe I can inegrate the solution to my suspend script, so that it turns the LCD off and then suspends.
The server currently does not have any ACPI framework. Assuming you're running Linux, you'll probably need to configure acpid to issue `chvt 1` on S3 events (perhaps S1 & S2 also), and `chvt 7` (or whatever) on return to S0.
A possible alternative is to switch use APM instead, but that's being deprecated.
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