Bug#552282: xserver-xorg-video-ati: suspend and hibernate doesn't work

[Andres Cimmarusti <acimmarusti@gmail.com>]

Yes, version 6.12.3 has been in Debian for a while, but there is a version 6.12.4 already. More over, while the Ubuntu bug was initially related to version 6.12.2, the problem remains even in the git version they now have in Ubuntu 9.10: http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/x11/xserver-xorg-video-radeon . As you can see the version they are working with is 6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1. I'm using the oldest Debian release because I don't want my functionality hindered, I posted this bug as a warning for future releases. If it is absolutely necessary we test this with Debian, then I will upgrade to Squeeze, but I was kind of hoping the Ubuntu problems would be enough to take action.

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:24 AM, Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> wrote:

Andres Cimmarusti wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
> Version: 1:6.9.0-1+lenny4
> Severity: important
>
> The Radeon driver in lenny if very limited and does not provide direct
> rendering (2D or 3D) for my card: ATI Radeon Xpress 200M 5955 based on
> ATI's chip RC410, moreover it fails to wake  up from suspend/hibernate.
> I have resorted to using the fglrx-driver in Lenny which works very
> well. I've had no problems. However, ATI/AMD stopped supporting this
> card in their driver versions greater than 9-3. I've also used newer
> versions of the open-source radeon driver successfully with this card,
> unfortunately, one problem remains: it doesn't wake up from suspend or
> hibernate!. This problem remains in the newest version of the the
> package xserver-xorg-video-ati/radeon, as can be evidenced from this
> Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/305301
>
> Please update to the newest version of xserver-xorg-video-ati
>

We have had xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.12.3 in Debian for a while. Just
don't use the oldest Debian release if you want the latest driver...

The ubuntu bug talks about 6.12.2, it might be good to know if 6.12.3
really doesn't work, and then check xserver-xorg-video-ati git master.

Brice