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

[Christian Hesse <mail-8oMOrB1mGocUSW6y5lq3GQ@public.gmane.org>]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1843 bytes --]

On Thursday 04 November 2004 12:59, liste-9nAOAgdJVo4b1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org wrote:
> Salut Nigel,
>
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 09:29, liste-9nAOAgdJVo4b1SvskN2V4Q@public.gmane.org wrote:
> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> >> Hash: SHA1
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > I guess I'm doing something driver related that Pavel isn't or vv :>.
> > Can I get a pointer to the driver source?
>
> The closed source driver from Nvidia is at
> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-6111/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-
>6111-pkg1.run For me to make it work, you first needed to extract it with
> --extract-only Then apply Haggi's patch (attached). Otherwise it refused to
> suspend: Could not suspend device 0000:01:00.0: error -1
> But all this is not with Swsusp 2.1, but with the 2.6.9-kernel, and works
> as it should.
> I think Christian is also using 6.111??? nvidia driver with Swsusp 2.1.

Yes, I use 1.0-6111 as well.

-- 
Christian

[-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 190 bytes --]