Hello Paul, On Wed, 10 May 2006 08:41:24 -0500 "Paul Johnson" <pauljohn32@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I had a Dell D800 with Nvidia 5200FX and I had to wrestle and fight > with it to get suspend to RAM working. It turned out that a properly > written ACPI script in /etc/acpi/actions and turning off the kernel's > agp support did the job. To suspend, it ONLY works to do the > FN-Suspend key. None of the scripts provided for suspending > worked--the system or video would not wake up. That includes > acpitools, pm-utils, hibernate, and gnome-power-manager (can't tell > what it was trying to do to suspend). pm-utils assumes > > Now I have a new D820 (Nvidia quadro card) with a fresh install of FC5 > (and the Nvidia driver), and there is no ACPI script at all. I hit > FN-Suspend and the system suspends, and I hit the power button or open > and close the lid, andit wakes up! No fuss, no fight. > > On the other hand, if I use the Gnome menu where it says "suspend", > the system goes to sleep, but never wakes up. It appears not to awake > the kernel, or lock right away. It is not the "video does not wake up" > problem that plagued me on the D800. > > After all the wrestling with the D800, understand that there are many > different suspend scripts and not all are written for any particular > video card. But I do not understand > > 1. Why does FN-Suspend work without any configuration in /etc/acpi Same here w/ my D810. Fn+Standby works w/o anything customized, but Fn+Suspend works w/ a call to pm-hibernate thru the acpid events/actions.. Both suspend-to-ram and hibernate (to-disk) work from the GNOME menu here. > 2. What is Gnome doing to try to suspend and how can I make it work > like FN-Suspend. I would also like to know what GNOME menus do (what they call)! Regards, -- wwp
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