nvidia vs suspend to disk

Chris Rouch chris.rouch at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 13:27:13 UTC 2009


On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Michael
Hennebry<hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
> Does anyone currently have suspend to
> disk working with nvidia's drivers?
> If so, how?
> One of the items I googled hinted that
> it might not be possible with SMP.
>
> In another thread (no hardware acceleration?),
> another poster mentioned pm-suspend quirks,
> but I've not been able to figure out how to use them.
> pm-suspend just gives me an error message.
> Prior to installing the nvidia driver,
> the KDE gui would let me suspend to disk.
>
> I'm running fedora 9 on a pentium 4 with hyperthreading.
>

I have tuxonice suspend working on F11 (and previously F10) with
nvidia drivers. You need a patched  kernel (kernel-tuxonice, available
from atrpms) and the suspend process is different, but the end result
is the same.

Regards,

Chris




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