Dont know much about Acer, but my Dell Inspiron 8200 does not work well either with ACPI. However, apm support works quite well with suspend to ram, so I use that until someone fixes ACPI support.
Hein On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 22:36, Sebastian Bleikamp wrote: > Hello, > > my name is Sebastian and I am new to this list. Since yesterday I am the > proud > owner of a Acer Travelmate 291LCi-M10. I installed Debian on it, and although > I had informed myself prior at tuxmobile.org, I was surprised that nearly > everything worked right out of the box. > > I had to install several "external" modules by myself, namely ndiswrapper > (for > Intel 2100 W-Lan) and sl-modem (for build in software modem). > , but even that worked without any problems. > > The only things that didn´ t work out of the box are the accelerated ati > drivers for the Ati Mobility 9600 M10 (RV350) and the > standby/suspend/hibernate modes. And thats why I´m writing in here now. > > I tried most drivers on the web, namely the ati/radeon drivers shipped with > the debian XFree86 4.3.0 packages, the ones from the ATI Homepage (fglx or > s.th. like that) and the DRI development drivers. Each of them worked, but > none of them made the 3d acceleration work. (I did this on several desktop > PCs > alredy, so I know the procedure.) Tuxracer and glxgears run at the same fps. > But therefore (if using non-std. drivers) the tv-out and crt-out didn´ t work > anymore, or the test mode console stopped working. > > And the suspend states don´t work although, even the normal ones (S1) don´ t > do. The laptop enters sleep mode, but isn´ t able to resume. It stops after > the framebuffer message in the reactivation process and hangs. hibernation > even didn´ t start. > > Btw, did I mention I tried both kernels 2.6 and 2.4 ? Well, since 2.6 works > better with anything else, I will stick to that. > > Well, I hope anyone reads this and can help me. Any help or comment is very > welcome. > > With best regards, > Sebastian > > >
