On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 17:46 +0300, Mihai Donțu wrote: > On Saturday 22 September 2007, Mihai Donțu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Today, out of curiosity, I pulled 2.6.23-rc7 (leave on the edge in a quiet > > weekend). > > Anyway, it seems that radeonfb and my: > > "01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS > > 200M 5955 (PCIE)" > > don't get along anymore, by: > > a) X somehow fails to initialize the card and everything moves really slow > > (I can > > see how surfaces are drawn pixel-by-pixel); furthermore, garbage stuff > > appears > > on the screen; > > b) after powering up from a s2ram, the system freezes; > > > > b) is not that bad, s2ram never worked on my machine (kjournald and some > > other kernel > > processes, enter disk-sleep and in a matter of seconds, everything just... > > freezes. > > I can type a few commands at the normal console but that is all); > > > > Following the advices in 'Documentation/power/s2ram.txt' helped. Using the > > regular > > VGA console got X on the right track (no more slowness); > > > > Now that I got my hands "dirty", I'm in the mood to make my s2ram work (I've > > been using Linux (exclusively) for three years now, it's about time I do a > > small > > contribution). What kernel option must I enable to determine why some > > processes > > enter (and stay in) disk-sleep? I'm on a laptop and I don't think it will > > withstand > > too many reboots :) > > > > I've also attached the output of lspci and dmesg. Maybe someone spots > > something. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Since there was no reply, I assume people *do* take the weekend off :)
Heh, yup. There have been some radeonfb patches around -rc6 or so. Can you try backing them out and letting us know if that helps a) ? In that case, Linus, we probably want to revert them... Though looking at your PCI ID (5955), I don't think the patches should have changed anything. Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
