Re: Success with kernel-swsusp and Nvidia-closed-source

[Christian Hesse <christian.hesse-5lmcC6f56PSELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org>]

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On Wednesday 03 November 2004 23:29, liste-9nAOAgdJVo4b1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org wrote:
> Salut Christian,
>
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Christian Hesse wrote:
> > I'm using software suspend 2.1. For me suspend works fine, but the system
> > freezes as soon as it is resumed, I only see a black screen then. Driver
> > nv works without any problems. Any hints what could be the cause?
>
> I did not patch in anything into the kernel. I used a vanilla 2.6.9 (only
> the Makefile was patched to show 2.6.9 instead of 8 ... maybe somebody
> watched a bit too much tv... :-)
> So I did not use swsusp 2.1. And I could not manage to freeze on resume
> this time. So, why didn't you try the vanilla-kernel, with the
> Haggi' s patch for the nvidia driver?
> When you test - be sure to sync before suspending. It's the second best,
> besides having a jung backup handy.

Vanilla kernel's suspend to disk is too slow for me. I needs 90 seconds to 
suspend the system (vs. 10 seconds with swsusp-2.1). I think I'll continue 
using nv until Nvidia releases a version of the driver that works without any 
problems for me.

-- 
Christian Hesse

geek by nature
linux by choice

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