Thinkpad not going off while suspend

[Tobias Roth]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:56:55PM +0200, Jochen Gensch wrote:
> 
> Applied the dpms patch, now the background light turns off properly.
> But now it doesn't resume correctly any more. The screen is destroyed.
> So, I commented out the dri module in my X-Conf. This leads to no
> noticeable change. The screen still doesn't show up properly. Next step
> was playing around with those two variables

sorry for not being clear enough and (possibly) wasting some of your time.
the thing to do is not (only) to disable dri in X-Conf, but to remove

device         radeondrm

from your kernel, and make sure the radeon.ko is not loaded. if that
doesn't fix things, i am out of ideas.

cheers, t.