Hello! On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 12:31:36AM -0800, Joe Emenaker wrote: > I've got a I8600 with the NVidia card in it. In the two years since I've > had it, I've learned to *never* put it into suspend-to-ram mode. If you > do this, everything suspends just fine... but, upon waking, the display > doesn't turn back on.
Well, I have T43 with i810 card, but still. I have familiar problem (kernel 2.6.20) that can be worked around in such a way: after resuming change the console to the 1st and then to the 7th (chvt 1; chvt 7) one more time. May be it will help. > The machine still *works* in this state (I can type commands blindly and > see the hard disk working... I can even ssh into the laptop and run > commands that way), but nothing I've ever tried has gotten the screen to > come back on after a suspend-to-ram. > > I've read countless forums, but nobody seems to have the magic bullet. > I've tried using "chvt" to switch to a console before suspend, I've > tried killing/restarting X to wake up the screen, I've tried writing > various values to /proc/acpi/video/VID/lcd, and I've tried playing with > "xset dpms force on|off". Nothing has worked. > > Then, I had a moment of inspiration. By most accounts I've read, this > only happens to the Dells with NVidia cards in them. So, it occurred to > me that I could get an ATI card for the I8600 on eBay and install it. > However, I wanted to make sure that I'm not setting myself up for > heartache, here. So, I have a few questions: > > 1 - Can the ATI drive the 1920x1200 WUXGA screen that I've got? The ones > I see on eBay are all 32MB cards, and I'm not sure what the RAM is on my > NVidia. My calculations tell me that 32MB should be *far* more than what > I need.... but I just want to be *sure* that someone's got it working. > > 2 - Are you able to use suspend-to-ram and wake it and get the screen back? > > 3 - Any ideas on how I can figure out how much ram my NVidia has? > > - Joe -- K.A., enfant terrible -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
