Ati Rage 128

[Rajeev Jain]

I appreciate this email. As a side note, I belive DRI is not enabled on my
system (how can I confirm?). I will definetly look into this s2ram option. 

I'm new to understanding the power management frameworks used in the varios
Linux distros. What is the relationship between pm-utils, s2ram and say KDE
desktop power management controls?

Again, thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Indan Zupancic [mailto:indan at nul.nu] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2007 11:19 AM
To: jainraje at yahoo.com; alexdeucher at gmail.com
Cc: xorg at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Ati Rage 128

>> Can anyone tell me how to get suspend/resume working with the ATI 
>> Rage 128 video card?
>>
>>  I'm using FC7 and tried a variety of pm-utils quirks with no 
>> success. My system consistently locks up during resume with garbled 
>> video.
>>
>> Any pointers, howtos or tips are very much welcome.
>
> The driver needs some work similar to what we do in the radeon driver.
> Patches welcome.

Suspend with r128 works, but only without DRI.

I run it without dri and use s2ram -f -p -s -a 3, but which options you need
doesn't only depend on the videocard, so fiddle with it till you have
something that works for you. For more info see http://en.opensuse.org/S2ram

If you want to get it to work with DRI then you need to modify the r128
driver so that it restores the video state at VT switch.
Either that, or merge the r128 driver with the DDX radeon driver, which
already does that. This is the prefered solution.
(Summarizing a previous email exchange between Alex and me here.)

Greetings,

Indan