Re: [ACPI] Re: [2.5.50, ACPI] link error

Ducrot Bruno
2002-12-11T10:06:58Z

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 09:50:48AM +1300, Andrew McGregor wrote:
> I strongly suspect that s4bios will work on this machine, but swsusp won't.
> Why? It's a Dell Inspiron 8000 with an NVidia Geforce2go, and until NVidia
> put pm support in their driver, it's game over for Linux. Except that the
> BIOS knows how to suspend it, so some kernel/driver combinations work with
> APM. I suspect any Geforce2go Dell is the same.

No. You are wrong. I need to suspend allmost all the drivers, and the
video chipset is not an execption (or go to a console before suspending,
in fact).
You still need to bug NVIDIA in order to have proper pm support
in their driver.

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Ducrot Bruno

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