suspend, agpgart and nvidia drivers
k.healy
k.healy at student.ucc.ie
Sun Apr 9 17:40:33 UTC 2006
Chris Jones <jonesc <at> hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get suspend working with the latest nvidia display drivers on my
> FC5 box. The latest nvidia release, 8756, is supposed to work with suspend.
> (and before anyone asks, the OSS driver nv does work, but with my 1900x1200
> screen and geforce fx go 5650) the X performance is pathetic compared to
> nvidia's own driver...)
>
> So far I have only been able to do so if I completely disable agp, using the
> nvidia xorg.conf option
>
> Option "NvAgp" "0"
>
> however, and only for S4 suspend (disk), where as I really would prefer S3
> (mem).
>
I'm trying to do something similar...but I'm getting lockups on resume with the
8178 drivers from atrpms. I haven't tried 8756 yet.
Have you tried any previous versions of the drivers? Were the results different?
What happens when you try S3....do you get a hang/lockup?
> After reading
>
> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8756/README/appendix-q.html
> http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-8756/README/appendix-f.html
>
> I am trying to disable agpgart and in favour of trying nvidia own nvagp, since
> there is a suggestion this might work better. However, when I try this (with
> Option "NvAgp" "1" ) I get
>
> NVRM: not using NVAGP, an AGPGART backend is loaded!
>
> The readme's do say the agpgart needs to be a kernel module - Is this the case
> with FC5 kernel 2.6.16-1.2080_FC5 ?
>
I don't think so.
Try adding 'agp=off' as a kernel parameter in grub.conf
Regards,
Ken
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