Hi Pavel, Thanks for the response. I couldn't actually find the struct you mentioned in 2.6.18-rc3 (I even grepped through the whole tree and didn't find it - I am using Jason's patched but I don't think it removed this). Is in the -mm2 code? I don't think it matters too much because using s2ram -r -f seems to give me much better power saving though I've had it hard-crash on resume once.
I also don't see any option in SuSE's powersave stuff to use radeontool so I end up having to call it manually form the command line (they support the other cmd line args to s2ram but not this as far as I can tell). Does anyone know if there is such an option? Its actually not that easy to see the difference between using '-r' and not on the screen. When I just do s2ram -f the screen goes dark as it should but if I look at it from different angles I notice that there is still some ghostly text on the screen which was the last output of the suspend call. At first I thought it might just be a normal fade-out effect of the screen but now I'm pretty sure it corresponds to something not being powered off fully. Using the '-r' option I no longer see this 'ghost text'. Does this sound like a backlight or like something else? Is there anything you'd like me to check on this? thanks, Sheer On 8/14/06, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > > >> I also notice that when I suspend to ram if I stare at the screen from > > >> different angles I can still see some faint characters in the > > >> background which makes me think that at some level the screen is not > > >> completley off. > > > > > >Backlight off but screen is not. Yep, I have seen it before. > > > > > >> I see this with the open source radeon driver (I'm > > >> not sure if it also happens with the proprietary ATI driver). > > > > > >Play with black/whitelists in the radeon driver, make radeon enter D3 > > >or something. > > > > > > > Are you just refering to the '-r' option in the s2ram? I tried 's2ram > > -r -f' and I get much better power usage when its suspended. I > > Aha, so you had backlight on? Well, that should be rather easy to see, > right? > Pavel > -- > (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek > (cesky, pictures) > http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Suspend-devel mailing list Suspend-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/suspend-devel
