On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:47:47PM +0100, Fran?ois TOURDE wrote: > Le 12458i?me jour apr?s Epoch, > Sridhar Srinivasan ?crivait: > > > Hi, > > Hi Sridhar. >
Hi, Thanks for replying. > > I'm running unstable on a Dell Inspiron 4100 with the nvidia > > GeForce2Go graphics card. I recently upgraded my nvidia driver from > > version 5328 to 5336 and since then I've faced this weird problem. > > > > If I suspend the laptop to RAM and leave it for a few hours, it > > reboots when I wake it up again. The weird thing is that it works fine > > if I wake it within a couple of hours. The syslog shows the apmd > > suspending and after that it shows the laptop booting up. I didn't > > have that problem with the 5328 version, so I'm wondering if anyone > > else has faced/is facing the same problem? > > I've had the same problem with older drivers, but it can be the > same. The reason I suspected is ... xscreensaver. So I disable the > screen power management in screensaver preferences, and then all works > good. > Good point, I was fiddling with the screensaver after upgrading but I believe I had it turned off and the reboots still happened. > The other thing I do is hacking the Nvidia source part of the driver > as described in my installation page. Take a look at: > > http://francois.tourde.org/C840/ > > and especially section: > > http://francois.tourde.org/C840/debian_on_dell_c840_5.html#SEC11 Well, in my case since the release of the 5328 version, I have not needed to hack the source and it works "out of the box" for me. To update my situation, I downgraded to version 5328 of the nvidia driver and the problem seems to have disappeared and my laptop now suspends fine. regards, sridhar
