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From: Ion Badulescu <ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu>
To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3 [slightly off-topic]
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 01:55:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200012020955.eB29tpK03869@moisil.dev.hydraweb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <90a065$5ai$1@penguin.transmeta.com>

On 1 Dec 2000 21:09:25 -0800, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:

> Even then XFree86 does something bad with DPMS, and will lock up the
> graphics chipset when it tries to shut down the flat panel display. 
> Solution: don't enable DPMS is XF86Config.  That's an XFree86 problem,
> but happily easily worked around. 

If it's the same bug that locks up the ATI chipset on my Dell laptop,
then you can safely enable DPMS if only enable the standby mode,
not the others (suspend and off). The panel gets turned off anyway,
even in standby.

Ion

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-02 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-02  4:09 Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3 Adam J. Richter
2000-12-02  4:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-12-02  5:45   ` Can CMS be upgraded? -- " Miles Lane
2000-12-02  5:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-02  7:27   ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-02  9:55   ` Ion Badulescu [this message]
2000-12-03  3:01     ` Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3 [slightly off-topic] Linus Torvalds
2000-12-03  3:00       ` how to compile redhat6.0 kernel Mourad Lakhdar
2000-12-03  3:25         ` Paul Schulz
2000-12-03 14:40       ` Pete Keller
2000-12-02 13:04   ` Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3 Alan Cox
2000-12-03  8:23     ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-02 20:08   ` Aaron Lehmann
2000-12-02 22:35   ` Pavel Machek

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