[NTLUG:Discuss] FC4 and Dell Inspiron 8600
Chris Cox
cjcox at acm.org
Mon Aug 22 15:34:52 CDT 2005
. Daniel wrote:
> I guess I should try to make it to the next meeting and maybe I can see
> what steps are being performed in suspend to disk. Largely, my problem
> is video as far as I can tell anyway.
>
> I have an ATI Radeon Mobility 9200 with 128MB RAM in my machine... I
> selected that option over the stock NVidia because I foolishly assumed
> ATI was better supported under Linux and X.org. I was mostly wrong as
> it turns out as I have read more about success with S3/S4 modes with
> NVidia users lately. Sad.
My Dell D600 running SUSE 9.2 (currently) with a Radeon RV250 based
chipset suspends to disk just fine. Just fyi. I'm using the open
source radeon driver that comes with SUSE 9.2. It's got accelerated
3d.... but it's not that great... games work though (just not a very
powerful card). That machine has 1G or ram and a 30G HD. The
screen is just a 1024x768.
So... I'd imagine that an 8600 with a 9200 Radeom would work just
fine with a stock SUSE 9.2 (and most likely 9.3).
Hard to show it live... but I did take a screenshot of our corporate
D600 running SUSE9.2 as I was about to do a software suspend to disk.
On reboot the machine restored to where it was (with the screen locked
of course).
http://www.ntlug.org/screenshots.html
(it's the first one right now browsing the SCI internal labs wiki
site)
>
> My more complete set of specs are:
>
> 768MB RAM, 128MB Radeon Mobility, 60GB HD, Firewire, USB 2.0, 1920x1200
> wide aspect display, Dual layer DVD writer. (I didn't want too many
> "wishes" unanswered when I bought this machine... and I paid too much
> money for it....)
>
> When's the next meeting again?
>
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> (CDT)</i><br>. Daniel wrote:<br> > Do we have any users on this list
> using this combination? If not, how<br> > about Dell Inspiron +
> Linux of any flavor?<br> ><br> > I'd like to discuss about
> success, failure and roadblocks in getting<br> > Linux running well
> on the Inspiron 8600. I've got mine set up in a way<br> > that's
> "satisfactory" but not as perfect as I would like it to be.
> That<br> > is to say, all hardware is working but suspend doesn't
> come back from S3<br> > or S4 (suspend to ram or suspend to
> disk).<br> ><br> > Let's discuss!<br><br>I have a friend with the
> 8600 and I've personally use an M60 (which is<br>effectively
> equivalent)... I ran SUSE 9.2 and suspend to disk worked<br>for me. And
> my friend I know is now up to SUSE 9.3 on his.<br><br>In general Dells
> to pretty well with suspend to disk. I could care<br>less about the
> other suspend modes (which I never got to work right).<br>Suspend to
> disk exists primarily outside of the "built in"<br>modes
> anyhow.<br><br>The Dell M70 I was using on Sat does suspend to disk...
> in fact<br>I was VPN'd one day and left my laptop on (unplugged) and
> it<br>shutdown (I have it configured to suspend to disk when the
> battery<br>gets low) and on bootup it came right back up .. wireless
> and<br>everything AND the VPN (if you were at the meeting on Sat
> I<br>was talking about the security implications of that
> behavior).<br><br>I often times demonstrate a suspend to disk while
> playing a<br>Quicktime streaming video via Internet Exploder running
> under CrossOver<br>Office and how it ALL comes back and continues right
> where it<br>left off after the suspend. The Windows folks around here
> say<br>they haven't seen that even under
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