You know Mark, I am aware that SuSE is not responsible for the NVIDIA drivers.(I have corresponded with NVIDIA also) I hope you didn't think I implied that SuSE was. I tried to convey this in my posts by saying that it seemed to be an NVIDIA problem. The facts are that all manufactures are constantly upgrading their drivers and was hoping that NVIDIA had and SuSE may be using a new driver. I was asking for the experience of the folks on this forum, hoping that someone else with the same hardware could tell me if anything had improved. I am still hoping that this will be the case. Eventually this will be solved and I will be waiting. <<<Bodo>>> Thank's for the input. I have seen that and gone through it step by step. The thing is I have posted several places for a couple of months and had many suggestions. No one has yet told me that they have it working. Many almost works. David On Wednesday 31 May 2006 10:17, Langsdorf, Mark wrote:
SUSE is not responsible for the video drivers, and indeed cannot even make changes to them. The problem is that the nVidia drivers do not correctly support suspend/resume, and only nVidia can fix that.
It's unlikely that SL10.1 will improve your suspend/resume experience.
-Mark Langsdorf AMD, Inc.
-----Original Message----- From: David [mailto:spotslayer@rgv.rr.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 5:27 PM To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-amd64] 10.0 to10.1???
Hi Mark, Power management in 10 I believe had to do with the NVIDIA drivers used. I have discovered many articles and posts in this and other forums describing the problems. In a nutshell several folks were able to get the laptop into suspend to ram or suspend to disk. Others were not. I am one that was not. The LT will start a suspend and when the screen shuts off the top line will display stopping service:. It will hang there. On a different forum I saw where several folks got new NVIDIA drivers from thier web site, recompiled them and wer able to get past this point. When it came time to resume the screen would stay dark. There were many suggestions as to how this could be corrected but I never saw anyone that said they had been 100% successful. The logic here is that in reality PM worked and the video drivers were failing. But in my thinking even if this is true, then PM is still not working out of the box. I would switch if it did, but if not I will just stay where I am for now.
In Windows(spit) it works flawlessly on this same LT. I guess eventually it will get to where it works out of the box.
David
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 08:18, Langsdorf, Mark
wrote:
Hello, I have been using SuSE since version 9.0. I have
skipped a
couple of versions but I am currently using 10.0. My
computer is a
HP pavillion zv5000 laptop using nVidia chipset. The power management does not work properly. Has this been improved
in 10.1? I
would like to get power management working and would
upgrade if PM
will work without having to jump through hoops. Would there be any reason to switch from 10.0 to 10.1?
Should I just
skip this version and wait for the next one. Power
management would
be my main interest.
There were no significant changes between 10.1 and 10.0 in the PowerNow! driver, at least from the viewpoint of your
laptop. There
may have been changes in the ACPI subsystem that could have
affected
power management.
Why didn't power management work in 10.0?
-Mark Langsdorf AMD, Inc.
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