Guest GanjaTron Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 Howdy fellow Mandriva users, I just installed Mandriva 2006 on my Compaq Evo N410C, and was happy to see this distro (like its predecessors) really does a great job in detecting the somewhat more exotic/proprietary hardware typically found in notebooks. There are a few minor niggles, but one issue that really drives me up the wall is suspend to memory; it suspends alright, but the display goes nuts in text mode after resume. Resume on the text console simply doesn't turn the display back on, no matter what. Under X (using the Radeon driver), resume actually works fine, but as soon as I exit X and drop back into text mode, the display slowly bleeds white from its centre into the edges (commonly referred to as The Matrix?). In both cases only a reboot will restore the display. I've tried the savetextmode/textmode utils from the svgalib package, and "radeontool light on" as well as "atitvout l", to no avail. Clues, anyone? Best regards, --GanjaTron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniewicz Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 Welcome to the MUB! B) I am not a laptop user. The first thing I would do is apply all updates to your Mandriva 2006 installation. Have you configured your sources so that you can use urpmi? See the link Easy-Urpmi at this top of this page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GanjaTron Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 Thanks for the welcome, mon! :) Yep, I've done the updates. In particular, I updated the kernel to 2.6.12-22mdk, but to no avail... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 18, 2006 Report Share Posted July 18, 2006 try adding this option: TextClockFreq 22.175 to the device section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GanjaTron Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 try adding this option: TextClockFreq 22.175 to the device section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf No luck there, mate. :^( I guess the Evo's BIOS doesn't realise it's awake again... or suspended at all, for that matter. Punching the suspend button doesn't elicit the usual sickly "DOO-DOOT", so something in the BIOS gets screwed up or isn't called. (I imagine Linux merely does the BIOS calls, but I'm not an ACPI expert anyway). It's a real PITA having to shut down & reboot every time... --GanjaTron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted July 19, 2006 Report Share Posted July 19, 2006 From what I've read the BIOS in those things isn't exactly standard. But as far as I've read it should be working as long as you have a recent linux distro and xorg version :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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