[Swsusp-devel] swsusp2 + nVidia

[Jonathan Sambrook <swsusp@hmmn.org>]

At 08:38 on Mon 17/05/04, hpoley@dds.nl masquerading as 'Henk Poley' wrote:
> Op zondag 16 mei 2004 21:35, schreef Dumitru Ciobarcianu:
> > On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 14:25 -0400, Robert Paskowitz wrote:
> > > I am wondering if anyone has been able to successfully suspend/resume
> > > with an nvidia card (using nvidia's binaries), while in X with glx/dri
> > > loaded. I was able to suspend/resume successfully from a tty, but going
> > > back to X froze the machine. Thanks.
> >
> > From my testing it looks like the driver does not properly restore
> > (initialize) the card. And not always the machine is frozen, sometimes I
> > can ssh into it and issue an clean reboot. Sometime even the power
> > button works to issue an shutdown (via ACPI).
> 
> My nVidia card doesn't work either. A GeForce4 MX440, with current nVidia 
> binary drivers. I currently use the open source 'nv' driver, but it's *slow*. 
> (or at least, my system feels less responsive, and I think it has to do with 
> the from time to time 10-20% CPU eating X)


Out of interest: is there anyone from nVidia monitoring the swsusp2
list and thus aware of the issues in their driver requiring
attention?

Regards,
Jonathan

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