F9 and nVidia Quadro NVS 140 M

[Richard Shaw]

2008/8/13 Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu>

>
> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 12:33 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu>
> wrote:
>
>         >
>         > On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 12:00 -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
>         > > Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>         > > > Is anyone running this combination with either the nv
>         driver or the
>         > > > binary nvidia driver?  Are there any issues--in particular
>         with suspend
>         > > > or hibernate and resume?
>         > > >
>         > > > I have a ThinkPad T61 with this card.  I'd like to know
>         before I
>         > upgrade
>         > > > that I will still be able to suspend/resume.
>         > >
>         > > Every case I've ever heard of suspend/resume problems with
>         that hardware
>         > was
>         > > fixed by installing the nvidia driver.  If you're
>         comfortable running
>         > that, you
>         > > should be okay.
>         >
>         > I do run the binary drivers in F8.  Suspend works, but
>         hibernate
>         > doesn't.  I just wanted confirmation that it was at least that
>         good in
>         > F9.
>         >
>         > Thx.
>         >
>         > >
>         > > -- Chris
>         > >
>         > >
>         > --
>         >                Matthew Saltzman
>         >
>
>         I would say my experience with a Quadro 570M is about the same.
>         Suspend
>         appears to work but when it comes out of hibernate everything
>         acts funny
>         (momentary lockups and eventual hard locks).
>
>         Richard
>
> I got a test machine with the 570M.  The nv driver suspends OK but
> resumes with the backlight off.  I haven't yet figured out a
> workaround .  This bug goes back to F8.  Hibernate seems to work fine.
>
> The nvidia drivers for the latest kernel are delayed at Livna, so
> haven't been able to test them yet.
> --
>                 Matthew Saltzman
>

I probably should have mentioned, I'm running the 173.14.09 beta drivers
(dkms enabled package from freshrpms). Also I haven't tried repeated suspend
or hibernate cycles to see if it has more issues over time.

Richard
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