Re: Laptop recomendation?
On Saturday 01 January 2005 14:16, Shreyas Ananthan wrote:
> Peter <peter@bsqt.homeip.net> writes:
> > I installed took a kernel.org 2.6.10, with the latest ipw and acpi
> > patches from sf.net, and as of yesterday, I have at least S1 and S3
> > suspend/resume,
>
> I have a Dell Inspiron 5150 and I have been trying to get S3 working
> on it for over a year now without success. The video (radeon card)
> does seems to lock up everytime I wake up from S3 (Suspend to
> RAM). How did you get around that problem?
>
prior to 2.6.10 it would not even suspend correctly, I had no opportunity
to have your problem :-)
otoh... my frame buffer driver is compiled in, not a module.
I got a lot of information from: http://www.loria.fr/~thome/d600/
and there is a radeonfb patch there for the problem you describe.
The current patch only seems to apply to < 2.6.8, which is why
I tried without the patch, and it worked.
> > It is now a great linux laptop, provided you are willing to build your
> > own kernel. Most of the special keys work, although I haven't figured
> > out the volume & mute keys yet. Have not tried the burner yet (have
> > lots of
>
> Have you looked at i8kutils yet? You can configure the volume and mute
> buttons. Look at /usr/share/doc/i8kutils/examples/setmixer.sh for more
> information. If I remember correctly you can also configure GNOME to
> use the volume and mute keys.
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