On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:25:57PM +0200, Carl-Daniel U. Hailfinger wrote: > Benjamin A. Okopnik wrote: > > > > Having recompiled the 2.16.18 kernel to include 'radeonfb' and after > > rerunning 'lilo' with 'vga=0' in "/etc/lilo.conf", I've tested several > > variations of what happens when booting with 'init=/bin/bash". The > > result: pretty much any combination of options results in a lock-up - > > some are *really* hard (require using the power switch to break out), > > while most will actually respond to Alt-Ctrl-Del (although not to any > > other keystrokes.) > > If I understand your description correctly, radeonfb itself works and > automatically finds the correct resolution (you should need no command > line parameter for it except maybe vga=0).
Exactly. I simply added it to '/etc/modules', set "vga=0" in lilo.conf and reran 'lilo', and it Just Worked. I'll have to figure out how to get my little boot-logo Tux back, but this is slightly less than a life-or-death priority. :) > That lockup on resume is a > good sign, if you believe it or not. Excellent - it's nice to know that I managed to break it the right way! > I need the following from you: > > lspci -nv -s 01:00.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su -c 'lspci -nv -s 01:00.0' Password: 01:00.0 0300: 1002:4e50 (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: 1025:0061 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 16 Memory at a8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] I/O ports at c100 [size=256] Memory at e0010000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] [virtual] Expansion ROM at a0000000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [58] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 > Then I can proceed to prepare a patch which you can test. I'll be more than happy to help. Given the number of responses to the Acer-config-HOWTO I wrote a few years back, there are a lot of people out there suffering^Wusing these laptops. Regards, * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET * ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Suspend-devel mailing list Suspend-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/suspend-devel