Anybody using a Dell Inspiron 8500/8600 with the ATI card?

2007-02-23 Thread Joe Emenaker
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. The machine still *works* in this state (I can type com

Re: Anybody using a Dell Inspiron 8500/8600 with the ATI card?

2007-02-23 Thread Micha
> Nothing has worked. Did anybody try the 'hibernate' package ? It has several options like restoring VBE state, or switch to console before suspend. There's also some options in /etc/default/acpi. Packages: acpi-support, acpitool, vbetool. You may try to compile rc kernel 2.1.6.20 from kernel.o

Re: Anybody using a Dell Inspiron 8500/8600 with the ATI card?

2007-02-23 Thread Florian Reitmeir
Hi, please post the output of: lspci uname -a your Xorg.0.log did you try the binary NVIDIA driver? this one should support suspend if you also force it to use "nvidia agp, there is a howto in the readme of the driver. On Fre, 23 Feb 2007, Joe Emenaker wrote: > I've got a I8600 with the NVidia

Re: Anybody using a Dell Inspiron 8500/8600 with the ATI card?

2007-02-23 Thread Joe Emenaker
Florian Reitmeir wrote: did you try the binary NVIDIA driver? I tried it about 18-24 months ago... and it didn't work. As I recall, either XFree86 (xorg wasn't out then) wouldn't even start or I got the same blank screen problem as I did with the open-source driver, so I switched back. Still,

Re: Anybody using a Dell Inspiron 8500/8600 with the ATI card?

2007-02-23 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Joe Emenaker wrote: uname -a Linux joeslap 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Fri Feb 2 15:10:49 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux Joe, did you ever think maybe it's the naming convention you used that causing your laptop to give you fits? You asked your laptop to slap you when you named it. ;) Sorry, it's just

Re: Anybody using a Dell Inspiron 8500/8600 with the ATI card?

2007-02-23 Thread Florian Reitmeir
Hi, On Fre, 23 Feb 2007, Joe Emenaker wrote: > Alright. I might give hibernate a chance with susp-to-ram. Is it going > to auto-detect what it needs to do, or am I going to have to test out > dozens of various flags? /etc/hibernate/ram.conf /etc/hibernate/common.conf UseDummyXServer yes the

Re: Anybody using a Dell Inspiron 8500/8600 with the ATI card?

2007-02-23 Thread Micha
Joe, man hibernate.conf - as Florian says, there's a lot of tricky options. You would configure most of these options in common.conf. You have to do experiment. For example, try VbetoolPost yes. You seem to be looking for the 'sys2ram' (ACPI) method. Thus, have a look into package acpi-support and

Gateway 7510GX Users

2007-02-23 Thread Nu-Genoa
Good morning, I bought a Gateway 7510GX about two years ago and I've been wanting to put linux on there. I am looking at the debian distro and wondering if anyone here has a working, fully functional 7510GX running sarge. The system has an internal wireless card ( Broadcom 4318 802.11b/g Wireless

Re: Gateway 7510GX Users

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri February 23 2007 21:28, Nu-Genoa wrote: > Good morning, > > I bought a Gateway 7510GX about two years ago and I've been wanting to > put linux on there. I am looking at the debian distro and wondering if > anyone here has a working, fully functional 7510GX running sarge. > > The system has a