On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 09:56 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 21:05 +1000, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > > My laptop doesn't wake from suspend. I'm pretty sure this is the old > > 'nv' driver doesn't wake from suspend issue I've had before and the > > sooner I can get that disease ridden nvidia driver (from livna) > > compiled, the sooner I can confirm this. However, the build method has > > changed and I can't figure it out, so if someone can give me a hand > > getting this working, then I can file a bug against the 'nv' driver with > > regard to resume issues. > > nv has many, many known resume issues. On most laptops, the nv video > BIOS will nop out the POST path after boot. The VBIOS makes cross-calls > to the system BIOS to determine policy, and the system BIOS may have > been thrown away, so it's easier for NVIDIA to just do nothing with > VBIOS calls after bootup and let the driver handle it directly. > > Which is, in fact, the correct thing to do, but it does mean we can't do > 'vbetool post' on nv chips reliably. And we don't currently have the > code to initialize the chip without doing BIOS POST, so. It's a bit > screwed atm. I've mentioned this to NVIDIA and they're trying to work > out a solution, but right now nv laptops should be considered > hibernate-only with the nv driver. > > This is probably something that should go in a release note. Thanks AJAX. It would be useful for this to be in the release notes. R. -- "It's a fine line between denial and faith. It's much better on my side" -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
