Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] status of nvidia + tuxonice ?

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Author: Xavier Gnata
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To: Jordan Hazen
CC: tuxonice-devel
Subject: Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] status of nvidia + tuxonice ?
Hi,

Are you using vbetool or not?
#EnableVbetool yes
#RestoreVbeStateFrom /var/lib/vbetool/vbestate
#VbetoolPost yes
#RestoreVCSAData yes

Xavier


> On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 10:55:27AM +0200, Xavier Gnata wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> What is that status nvidia non-free drivers + tuxonice??
>> On my box, it works but sometimes the screen remains black after resume.
>> Is it a bad interaction in between the framebuffer,nvidia non-free and
>> tuxonice??
>>
>
> My experience has been that supend/resume reliability varies a lot
> from one nvidia driver version to the next. I had the issue you
> describe with at least one of the 169.xx series, but a newer release
> (178.xx, I think?) seems to have fixed that, knock on wood.
>
> Try downloading the newest driver bundle from http://nvnews.net ...
> but do save your current ones first, in case it makes things worse.
>
> Any nvidia drivers bundled with a Linux distribution are likely out of
> date.
>
>
>> Is nvidia non-free just crap wrt tuxonice ??
>>
>
> Sometimes! :(
>
>
>> Xavier
>>
>
>