Acer 1694 Patch

Chris Nolan chris at cenolan.com
Sat Dec 15 06:14:24 PST 2007


Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Freitag, 24. August 2007, Chris Nolan wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Attached is the patch file for the Acer 1694WMLi - it's basically the
>> same patch as the existing one for the Acer 1690.
>>
>> One caveat - suspend and resume don't work at all on this laptop with
>> the latest kernel builds and the latest ATI driver (8.40.4) no matter
>> what quirks are used - I have had to revert to kernel 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7
>> in order to use both the ATI drivers and suspend/resume.
>>
>> Hopefully future kernel builds will be fixed in this regard. If there is
>> anywhere I should report these difficulties with the latest kernels/ati
>> drivers then please let me know.
>>     
>
> Commited adopted version of your patch. Thanks for the report,
>
> Danny
>   

You should probably un-commit it because I later noticed that the 1694 
is detected as a 1690 model so the existing 1690 patch was already 
effective.

It took 4 months to respond to my original message, so I look forward to 
hearing from you again in April!

Chris


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