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

Pavel Machek
2005-06-20T09:42:48Z

Hi!

> > > 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 there's a link to my(again outdated) Acer TM 800 howto which lists a few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

Can you provide documentation patch?

For now I did:

...but better solution would be welcome.

diff --git a/Documentation/power/video.txt b/Documentation/power/video.txt
--- a/Documentation/power/video.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/video.txt
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ Model hack (or
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Acer Aspire 1406LC ole's late BIOS init (7), turn off DRI
Acer TM 242FX vbetool (6)
+Acer TM C110 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3670
Acer TM C300 vga=normal (only suspend on console, not in X), vbetool (6)
Acer TM 4052LCi s3_bios (2)
Acer TM 636Lci s3_bios vga=normal (2)

Pavel
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