Suspend fails using fglrx on F10 (Joonas Saraj?rvi)

[William Murray]

>> Hello all,
>> I have an old Dell D610 (R300) which was doing
>> what I wanted (films, openarena, tv-out, suspend) with Fedora
>> 10 until fglrx 9.2 (or was it 9.1?) arrived. Anyway 9.3 didn't help.
>>
>> Now suspend fails. Black screen if you try. The log file
>> <http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16312#>
>> after reboot, thinks it succeeded. Does anyone have it working?
>> Do I have to unload fglrx manually?
>> Thanks for any clues - its a major hassle for me.
>> Bill
>>
>>     
>
> While I can't help with debugging the situtation, I'd recommend
> switching to the free drivers, because
>
> 1) They are free software
> 2) They are really supported in Fedora
> 3) They should work on your hardware out-of-the-box
> 4) The next fgrlx release from AMD is going to drop support for
> R300-based Radeon cards.
>
>   
Hi Joonas,
              You are correct of course. But they are just too slow on 
my relatively old hardware,
I cannot, for example, watch a film comfortably fir the radeon driver. But
I did put in a bug report for the recent bugzilla day...
          Bill