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Re: pmud / harddisk / kernel problem



"Benjamin Herrenschmidt" <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:

> >When I do, however, isntead of going black my display does this slowly
> >evolving technicolor firework thing that doesn't look healthy for the
> >display. 
> 
> You are probably not using aty128fb, but offb which doesn't support
> putting the video controller to sleep.
> 
> Make sure you use aty128fb (just give no kernel video command line
> option should work with my tree).

Yup, that was it. No more purple haze effects. However sleep is
unreliable at best. It usually fails to wakeup properly most times I
attempt it. No screen, no disk, green sleep light stops, but nothing
happens. 

jas.



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