Re: Help with S3 on an Acer Travelmate c110 [SOLVED]

Stefan Dösinger
2005-06-19T22:00:05Z

On Sunday 19 June 2005 16:34, Adam Olsen wrote:
> Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> > Read Documentation/power/video.txt in the kernel's source directory. This
> > should help you ;-)
>
> Thanks for the response. I followed the documentation, but none of the
> methods worked. I did, however, find something in someone's blog
> concerning a Travelmate c300 that mentioned a utility called video_post.
> This works - you have to switch to a VT and back to X to get it to
> start working, but this is scriptable with chvt.
>
> video_post wasn't easy to find via google - there are lots of posts
> about it, but most links are broken... a forum post finally led me to
> this link: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3670 and download
> "attachment.cgi", which is actually a .tar.gz package. I guess this is
> just an FYI for anyone who might come accross the archive searching for
> Travelmate c110.
This method should be listed there. Well, it's not listed under this name, but
there's a link to my(again outdated) Acer TM 800 howto which lists a few
simmilar tools

> * radeon systems, where X can soft-boot your video card. You'll need
> patched X, and plain text console (no vesafb or radeonfb), see
> http://www.doesi.gmxhome.de/linux/tm800s3/s3.html. (Acer TM 800)

Well, it's fine that you got it working!

Stefan

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