gooddog
04-12-03, 10:27 PM
I applaud NVIDIA for its efforts to support Linux. I wonder, however, why the latest driver still does not support user suspend.
When you have a notebook, user suspend is an important feature, especially when you haul your notebook around from meeting to meeting. The whole point of a notebook is portability. Going through power down and then power up again just because you have to carry your notebook somewhere is extremely inconvenient.
I found a hack to support suspend that worked for an earlier version (1.0-3123) of the NVIDIA drivers and an earlier kernel version than the current Red Hat one. The hack was very simple. Rebuild the kernel without AGP support and then flip 1 and 0 in the PM_RESUME/PM_SUSPEND case statement in nv.c (starting at line 1669).
I tried something similar in the latest NVIDIA drivers, but to no avail. Could someone from the company who understands the code make the fix?
When you have a notebook, user suspend is an important feature, especially when you haul your notebook around from meeting to meeting. The whole point of a notebook is portability. Going through power down and then power up again just because you have to carry your notebook somewhere is extremely inconvenient.
I found a hack to support suspend that worked for an earlier version (1.0-3123) of the NVIDIA drivers and an earlier kernel version than the current Red Hat one. The hack was very simple. Rebuild the kernel without AGP support and then flip 1 and 0 in the PM_RESUME/PM_SUSPEND case statement in nv.c (starting at line 1669).
I tried something similar in the latest NVIDIA drivers, but to no avail. Could someone from the company who understands the code make the fix?