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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:57:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com>
To:        The Babbler <bts@babbleon.org>
Cc:        "Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]" <sperber@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>, <prm@complexsys.net>, <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Gateway Solo, Mach64 Rage Mobility, XFree86
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101161452450.53827-100000@mothra.ecs.csus.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3A64C739.CC74A9DC@babbleon.org>

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On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, The Babbler wrote:

#
# Just FYI, I have an Ispiron 7500, which has a Rage Mobility, and
# suspend/resume doesn't work under X on that one, either; however, the
# solution that Linux uses is pretty simple:

	I believe you'll find a long threads on this subject in the
archives.  I have a 7500 that I've been running X 4.0.2 on with great
success, takes care of the suspend problem.  Also gets you the nice
1400x1050 res.  You can find my current /etc/XF86Config for the 7500 at :

http://www.randomnetworks.com/files/all/XF86Config

# On a request to suspend, it calls out to a user script (I would imagine
# that FreeBSD does this as well, but I'm just starting to use FreeBSD in
# the modern era of laptops); the user script for for the i7500 simply
# switched to a console on suspend and switches back to X on resume.
#
# In spite of that, however, it still fails if I suspend twice in a give
# session (between reboots), and it's necessary to power off to get
# control back.


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* Joseph Scott               The Office Of Water Programs *
* joseph@randomnetworks.com  joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu    *
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