radeon, Linux 2.6.39: long one minute S3 resume

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Paul Menzel
<paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> So there seems to be a long one minute delay before the following
> message?
>
>        [ 1895.904100] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware "radeon/RV710_pfp.bin"
>
> Is searching for the firmware taking so long? I do not want to install
> the firmware being in non-free.

The kernel firmware loader takes a minute or two to time out; you
might be able to adjust that.  The ucode is required for acceleration
and interrupts, so it's recommended if you want to be able to fully
utilize the hardware.

Alex