On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 08:51:36 -0600 (MDT) Marc Aurele La France <tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > > Marc. > Hello Thanks for the help. Unfortunately I dont want to go to use APM as that is depreciated as you said. What you said about the chvt, I was really happy to hear, and I tried, but it does not work unfortunately. Same as before, buzzing sound and the display shows writing. But this writing is very hard to see. Not obvious at all. I realized it after 2 months of using it, so you can see how dimmed it is. Also, another very interesting thing, that when I open the lid, and the laptop is still asleep (it needs button press to wake), as I said, I can see the writing from an angle, but only if I turn the LCD to the left, or right, and get some sunshine on it, or light. Now, when I press the button (space usually), it starts to wake up, and the first moment when I press the button, I think the LCD goes off for a moment only, and then wakes up. Why I think this? I checked carefuly, and before I press the space bar, the text is on the display, and when I press the SPACE bar, it gets erased, and the screen is even darker, but only for a second or less, and then backlight comes back on. Another thing to note, is that the text I see on the display looks something like this: ******************IRQ Something************ *************Stopping tasks................ SOmething like that. And again, when I press the space bar, it goes away, and finally the screen looks to be off for a moment. Thanks Ben > +----------------------------------+--------------------------------- > --+ > | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 > | | > | Academic Information and | fax: 1-780-492-1729 > | | > | Communications Technologies | email: tsi@xxxxxxxxxxx > | | > | 352 General Services Building > | +-----------------------------------+ University of Alberta > | | | > | Edmonton, Alberta | Standard disclaimers apply > | | > | T6G 2H1 | > | | > | CANADA | > | | > +----------------------------------+--------------------------------- > --+ XFree86 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals. > > _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
