Re: New sleep code for ATI M6, M7 and M9

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Die, 2003-03-18 at 23:26, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Brett Carter wrote:
> > 
> >> As you can tell from the versions though, I haven't come around to
> >> updating the woody packages in a while. It's possible that something in
> >> the current packages for sid makes a difference. Would be great if
> >> someone could verify that.
> >
> >Ok, I'm verifying that the sid packages don't work for me either.
> >xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk
> >Version: 2003.03.11-1
> >
> >drm-trunk-module-2.4.20-ben8
> >Version: 2003.03.11-1+lucy+22+lowlat+sleep
> >
> >If I disable dri, I can sleep just fine, otherwise, the screen never comes
> >back on.
> 
> Yep, same here.  I downgraded from Daniel Stones' XFree86 4.3 packages last
> night to the official packages + Michel Daenzer's drm-trunk stuff, mainly so
> that DRI works again.
> 
> TiBook IV, Radeon M9.  Commenting out Load "dri" and the Section "DRI" from
> XF86Config-4 sleeps and wakes up, with DRI enabled the screen doesn't come
> back on.  I do not know if it has woken up, though.

I suspect it's something not directly related to X, as it Just Works(TM)
here with or without DRI, with or without DRIReinit, with or without
agpgart.


> I still notice the behaviour that I can only sleep when in X once, the
> second wakeup never succeeds.  I can reproduce this without fail.  It
> doesn't happen in console mode -- unless I have gone into X and exited, in
> which case it won't wake up if it has slept once already.

This is particularly weird.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast