Commit 6356aaa9 authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] doc: tips for S3 resume on radeon cards

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>

Stefan has pretty useful tips for getting S3 to work on radeon notebooks.
This brings whole new class of systems to be usable for S3.
parent 4a99dc71
Video issues with S3 resume
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2003, Pavel Machek
2003-2004, Pavel Machek
During S3 resume, hardware needs to be reinitialized. For most
devices, this is easy, and kernel driver knows how to do
......@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ run normally so video card is normally initialized.
There are three types of systems where video works after S3 resume:
* systems where video state is preserved over S3. (HP Omnibook xe3)
* systems where video state is preserved over S3. (Athlon HP Omnibook xe3s)
* systems that initialize video card into vga text mode and where BIOS
works well enough to be able to set video mode. Use
......@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ There are three types of systems where video works after S3 resume:
point, but it happens to work on some machines. Use
acpi_sleep=s3_bios (Athlon64 desktop system)
* 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)
Now, if you pass acpi_sleep=something, and it does not work with your
bios, you'll get hard crash during resume. Be carefull.
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