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:

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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.