nvidia vs suspend to disk

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 03:27:13PM +0200, Chris Rouch wrote:
> 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.

Normal suspend and hibernate works properly on my laptop using the
rpmfusion.org NVidia drivers on Fedora 11.  I didn't have to patch or
change anything.  I have a NVidia GeForce 8400M GS in my Dell XPS
M1330 laptop.  While I'm not thrilled about using the proprietary
driver, that driver for now is the only way suspend and hibernate work
properly.  Nouveau fails to return a working display:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502334

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