On Sunday 28 May 2006 23:36, Matt T. wrote:
On Saturday 27 May 2006 22:45, David 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.
I'm running a pavilion zv5000 with 9.3 and I see no problems with power management. (Couldn't go to 10.0 due to a Siera wireless pcmcia card which I couldn't get to work with 10.0. Not SuSE's fault, not at all, but the Siera wireless pcmcia cards are using a weird way to access them) I did not mention that my laptop is an AMD 64.
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.
David
I would like to hear what you see as not working in PM. I don't remember from my test installs power management as not working with the pavilion zv5000.
Suspend to ram, Suspend to disk and standby. All the research I have done points the finger at the NVIDIA drivers being used in 10. I have used 10 in a Thinkpad and PM seems to work fine. Some folks say that their laptop will not resume. I cannot even get mine to go into any of the modes. The screen goes black and just shows Stopping Devices: and freezes. I never get a chance to resume. Others on this forum and other forums have told me they get into a mode but can't get things to come back up. Processor throttling seems to work on mine.
Then of course I like to see if everything works fine after you installed, because I'm getting ready to upgrade my pavilion zv5000 in about a week or so (we replaced theSiera wireless pcmcia card with Huawei cards, their cdma pcmcia card works fine with linux)
I recommend saving your data and do a fresh install though.
Matt
Everything else works fine, so I don't think I will do an upgrade until I see positive reports that PM will work out of the box. David