video=radeonfb being ignored on command line, Inspiron 600m suspend
Thomas J. Baker
tjb at unh.edu
Fri Nov 5 16:09:18 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 09:37 -0500, Thomas J. Baker wrote:
> I'm attempting to get some version of suspend working on a Dell 600m
> laptop. I've read that I first should be using the radeonfb device but
> specifying "video=radeonfb" on the kernel command line doesn't seem to
> take affect. I've rebuilt the initrd using --preload-module=radeonfb but
> that doesn't seem to help. Modprobing radeonfb after boot does seem to
> work though. I know I could just modprobe it in rc.modules and if that's
> the only way, I'll do it but it seems like it should work similiar to
> how vga=792 makes the vesafb work.
>
> Any ideas on the radeonfb? Any hope of getting some type of suspend
> working on an Inspiron 600m without custom kernels?
>
> Thanks,
>
Fixed the subject since I butchered it.
tjb
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