Re: Desktop and S3 suspend the Holy Grail of ACPI?

[Bruno Ducrot <ducrot-kk6yZipjEM5g9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 09:02:57PM -0500, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> 
> >
> >There is at least one problem for which I don't think that you will have
> >S3 working even in the near future.
> >You do have a radeon 9700 and due to lack of supports by ATI those days,
> >I don't see how a developper can include power management codes in any
> >drivers other than by a cycle of guess, then try and guess again what
> >happens on errors.
> >Note that S3 may work though if you do not have AGPGART compiled,
> >and you do not use any kind of binary-only drm drivers from ATI.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> > 
> >
> Would an older ATI card, like a Rage 128 Pro or original Radeon (7000 I
> believe) work?
> 

Yes.  The radeon 7000 should be ok, and to be fair for ATI, they have
rewritten and given back the portion for this on the new radeon frame
buffer.

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

--  Which is worse:  ignorance or apathy?
--  Don't know.  Don't care.


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