TFT goes into suspend with radeon driver

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko at wonkology.org> wrote:
> Alex Deucher writes:
>
>> Logs look fine.  Do either of the following options help?
>>
>> Option "NoAccel" "TRUE"
>> Option "DRI" "FALSE"
>
> No, same result.
>
>> If vesa doesn't work, it could be that the card is going bad.
>
> But it worked well with an older fglrx revision and kernel, or with live-
> cds. We had trouble with the card before, but mainly with TV-out, not with
> monitors going straight into suspend mode.

Does fglrx still work?  Have you tried different connectors on the
card?  Live CDs with the open driver?  if so, perhaps something is
broken on your local setup.

>
>> Also, if you previously had fglrx installed, make sure it is
>> completely removed before trying the open drivers or vesa.
>
> fglrx is no longer installed, and never was compiled for the running kernel.

fglrx replaces several libs with it's own versions that can cause
problems.  Make sure to re-install the original versions.

Alex