Suspend-To-RAM Works!
An emerge sync showed there was a new version of the xorg-x11 packages in Gentoo. The changelog revealed that there is a patch to fix Radeon upon S3 resume. I built the X server, and it works! No modules even need to be unloaded except ehci_ucd. No problem.

The day started off shitty, with me being unable to attend Robert Love's speech, and then being informed that some machines at school got compromised yet again. But when this suspend/resume started working, it totally outbalanced that. I finally have a functional Linux laptop.

I'm about to leave work to go for several OLS talks. I will have to thank Len Brown. Maybe I can listen to a recording of Love's speech to make the day complete.

OLS, Day 2
Due to work commitments, I only got to go to one event yesterday. The speech was by Jim Gettys and Keith Packard about the in-the-works x-server. He showed the great things that are available on his page as screenshots, but then amazed everyone with overlapping translucent videos playing in Xine as well as the technical things that drive them. I hope we can get his X server into the distros sooner rather than later.

In the evening, I spend another hour or two around Len Brown trying ACPI things. His latest patch made everything work in S3 except video resume. Still, it was a good step forward.