Re: Acer Travelmate 290 & Standby/Suspend to disk ?
Dont know much about Acer, but my Dell Inspiron 8200 does not work well
either with ACPI. However, apm support works quite well with suspend to
ram, so I use that until someone fixes ACPI support.
Hein
On Sat, 2004-04-10 at 22:36, Sebastian Bleikamp wrote:
> Hello,
>
> my name is Sebastian and I am new to this list. Since yesterday I am the proud
> owner of a Acer Travelmate 291LCi-M10. I installed Debian on it, and although
> I had informed myself prior at tuxmobile.org, I was surprised that nearly
> everything worked right out of the box.
>
> I had to install several "external" modules by myself, namely ndiswrapper (for
> Intel 2100 W-Lan) and sl-modem (for build in software modem).
> , but even that worked without any problems.
>
> The only things that didn´ t work out of the box are the accelerated ati
> drivers for the Ati Mobility 9600 M10 (RV350) and the
> standby/suspend/hibernate modes. And thats why I´m writing in here now.
>
> I tried most drivers on the web, namely the ati/radeon drivers shipped with
> the debian XFree86 4.3.0 packages, the ones from the ATI Homepage (fglx or
> s.th. like that) and the DRI development drivers. Each of them worked, but
> none of them made the 3d acceleration work. (I did this on several desktop PCs
> alredy, so I know the procedure.) Tuxracer and glxgears run at the same fps.
> But therefore (if using non-std. drivers) the tv-out and crt-out didn´ t work
> anymore, or the test mode console stopped working.
>
> And the suspend states don´t work although, even the normal ones (S1) don´ t
> do. The laptop enters sleep mode, but isn´ t able to resume. It stops after
> the framebuffer message in the reactivation process and hangs. hibernation
> even didn´ t start.
>
> Btw, did I mention I tried both kernels 2.6 and 2.4 ? Well, since 2.6 works
> better with anything else, I will stick to that.
>
> Well, I hope anyone reads this and can help me. Any help or comment is very
> welcome.
>
> With best regards,
> Sebastian
>
>
>
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