tibook'02+YDL2.3+pmud+snooze=crash
Steven Filling
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sun Nov 17 19:58:01 2002
So - is the video chip in the newest tibook iteration supported?
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ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 graphics processor with up to 64MB of DDR SDRAM
TIA
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On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 20:13:27 -0500
Stefan Bruda <bruda@ubishops.ca> wrote:
>
> At 16:18 -0800 on 2002-11-17 A R wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone have pmud working on the 2002 Tibooks?
>
> Is not pmud which is not working on 2002 tibooks, but sleep in
> general, and this is a well-known (and rather old) issue. The culprit
> is the video card (Radeon M7 aka 7500 Mobility). Ben Herrenschmidt
> said it best:
>
> At 10:43 +0200 on 2002-8-7 Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > Sleep isn't supported on this machine yet because we don't have the
> > necessary informations to implement support for it in radeonfb for
> > the M7 mobility chip.
> >
> > If ATI ever manage to schedule some time to send us those infos
> > then we'll have sleep working fully on this model. In the meantime,
> > you'll unfortunately have to stick without sleep, or maybe hope
> > somebody will disassemble enough of the MacOS driver to figure out
> > what has to be done. The sleep code for the M6 definitely doesn't
> > work on the M7.
>
> To my knowledge, nothing happened since.
>
> Stefan
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