[ltp] T61 suspend to disk / hibernate with nvidia drivers

[Petr Praus]

I've R61 w/ OpenSuSe 10.3 and nVidia Quadro 140M and it works quite
well. Trick was to add proper kernel parameter on boot, I don't
remember exactly which one but it's either acpi=s3_mode or
acpi=s3_bios.

Peter

On 2/27/08, Jimmy Wu <jimmywu013+linux-thinkpad@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I was just wondering if anyone has suspend-to-disk working with the
>  non-free nvidia drivers?
>  For Thinkwiki and other sites I've seen that say this works out of the
>  box, none of them mention using the nvidia driver, and it seems
>  everyone is using gnome-power-manager (I have xfce4, not gnome).
>
>  More detailed information below:
>
>  I have a Thinkpad T61 running Debian Sid / Xfce4, with an NVIDIA
>  Quadro NVS 140M.  From the package lists, I believe I have uswsusp
>  installed.   Suspend to ram works beautifully with the sysfs (echo -n
>  mem > /sys/power/state).  When I try s2disk from within X, the system
>  goes down fine, but comes up to a few beeps, a black screen, and total
>  unresponsiveness, other than a hard reboot.  I have tried s2disk from
>  a tty, even while X was running, and it suspends and resumes back to
>  the tty fine, but when I switch to the X server with Alt+F7, I get the
>  unresponsive black screen again, and can't even get back to tty1.
>  Using the hibernate package script, I get the following output:
>
>  hibernate: Trying method in suspend2.conf...
>  hibernate: Trying method in disk.conf...
>  hibernate: Trying method in ususpend-disk.conf...
>  hibernate: Including configuration from common.conf
>  hibernate: [01] Executing CheckLastResume ...
>  hibernate: [01] Executing CheckRunlevel ...
>  hibernate: [01] Executing LockFileGet ...
>  hibernate: [01] Executing NewKernelFileCheck ...
>  hibernate: [10] Executing EnsureUSuspendCapable ...
>  hibernate: [11] Executing XHacksSuspendHook1 ...
>  hibernate: [12] Executing IbmAcpiStartSuspend ...
>  hibernate: [59] Executing RemountXFSBootRO ...
>  hibernate: [89] Executing SaveKernelModprobe ...
>  Saved /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe is /sbin/modprobe
>  hibernate: [91] Executing ModulesUnloadBlacklist ...
>  Unloading blacklisted modules listed /etc/hibernate/blacklisted-modules
>  Unloading blacklisted module nvidia (and dependencies)
>  Unloading nvidia ...
>  Removing modules with rmmod.
>  Module version for ipw2100 is 2
>  Module version for ipw2200 is 2
>  Module version for snd_bt_sco is
>  Module version for ndiswrapper is
>  Unloading blacklisted module mac80211 (and dependencies)
>  Unloading iwl4965 ...
>  Unloading mac80211 ...
>  Some modules failed to unload: nvidia
>  hibernate: Aborting suspend due to errors in ModulesUnloadBlacklist
>  (use --force to override).
>  hibernate: [90] Executing ModulesLoad ...
>  Loading module iwl4965 (from auto)...
>  Loading module mac80211 (from auto)...
>  hibernate: [89] Executing RestoreKernelModprobe ...
>  hibernate: [85] Executing XHacksResumeHook2 ...
>  hibernate: [70] Executing ClockRestore ...
>  hibernate: [59] Executing RemountXFSBootRW ...
>  hibernate: [12] Executing IbmAcpiEndResume ...
>  hibernate: [11] Executing XHacksResumeHook1 ...
>  hibernate: [01] Executing NoteLastResume ...
>  hibernate: [01] Executing LockFilePut ...
>
>  Some sites say that to get nvidia to resume properly, add the
>  POST_VIDEO=false and SAVE_VBE_STATE=false to
>  /etc/defaults/acpi-support.  I didn't have that file, but I tried
>  installing acpi-support and making those changes.  That didn't fix the
>  problem though.
>
>  At this point, I am a bit at a loss for where to go next, so any help
>  would be greatly appreciated.
>
>  Thanks in advance!
>  --
>  Jimmy Wu
>  Registered Linux User #454138
>
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