radeontool and vbetool - why aren't they in pm-tools?!!

[Doug Goldstein]

Chris Nolan wrote:
> Why aren't vbetool and radeon tool in the current pm-tools package for 
> fc7? Over the past 3 weeks I have wasted too many hours trying to make 
> my laptop resume from suspend to RAM only to find that these 2 tools are 
> missing from my system, yet they are required for the pm- scripts to 
> work correctly. I installed them, along with libx86 (from 
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/fedora/7/i386/ as they aren't 
> in the fedora repos either) and wake from RAM is now working properly. I 
> doubt most new fedora users would have this patience and would just move 
> on to another distro.
>
> I notice this problem was first brought to the attention of the list in 
> July, but has not been rectified. 
> (http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2007-July/009261.html)
>
> Is there somewhere I should report this as an official bug?
>
> Thanks
> Chris
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You're having problems with Fedora's packaging of the pm-utils package.
pm-utils discussions neither happen here (they have their own mailing
list) and it's purely a packaging problem on one distribution. So talk
to that distribution.