Frank, I also have a ATI Rage Mobility in my laptop with XFree 4.1.0 and the suspend/awake work properly. The difference is that I have RedHat 7.2 with Kernel 2.4.x. So the problem could be a side effect of a incompatibility of some kind...
Best of luck, Jose Fonseca On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 10:39, Frank Steiner wrote: > Hi, > > I just upgraded from XFree 3.3.6 to 4.1 on my laptop which has a > Ati Rage Mobility chip. On 3.3.6, suspend and awake worked fine > by making the apmd switching to a text console before suspending, > using the chvt command in the apmd proxy. I'm working with SuSE > which uses a apmd_proxy script which is called from apmd and does > all this stuff. > > Now, with XFree 4.1, it doesn't work anymore. When I try to suspend > from X, the screen seems to switch to a console, because it goes black, > but half a second later it switches back to X and then suspends! Just as > if there was another "chvt 7" called just before the suspension. > I traced the apmd proxy script to make sure that the "chvt 1" is indeed > executed, but I could not find any hint about another chvt which switches > back to X. > > Neither kernel (2.2.19) nor apmd (3.0) have changed, just X, so I guess > it's a problem with X. I've found some messages in newsgroups describing > the same problem, but no solution. I also traced the xpert and newbie > list archives back to Jan 2000, but found nothing about this topic > (only recommendations to let apmd switch vt, which my apmd obviously does...) > > Does anyone have an idea what to do? > Anything else works just fine with XFree 4.1... > > Best regards, > Frank > _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
