nVidia proprietary driver kills Hibernate

[kortsen]

I have a Toshiba Satellite 2800-C500 with integrated nVidia GeForce 2Go graphics. When I use the generic nv driver, Hibernate works fine. When I use the proprietary nVidia driver and try to hibernate, the signal is cut to the LCD but it remains on, and after a bit of disk access the power remains on and the system is completely hung. I have to power-cycle and the system does a fresh boot (not a restore from Hibernate.)

The odd thing is that I am revisiting a problem I had with 7.04. Feisty would not hibernate at all. The nVidia driver behaved exactly as described above. And it wouldn't hibernate with the nv driver either, but it did have the decency to puke up some error messages before it swallowed it's tongue. I changed the driver from nVidia to nv and tried to hibernate, prepared to try and catch the errors. Well sonomabiatch if Gutsy didn't hibernate! I changed back to the nVidia driver and the problem above returned (no signal and hung.)

[SheeEttin]

Re: nVidia proprietary driver kills Hibernate

After trying to hibernate, try changing to a terminal. If that doesn't work, shut it down and see if you can't get at the logs by running a LiveCD (so the logs don't get changed). Try checking /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/messages.

[kortsen]

Re: nVidia proprietary driver kills Hibernate

After trying to hibernate, try changing to a terminal.

That didn't work.

If that doesn't work, shut it down and see if you can't get at the logs by running a LiveCD (so the logs don't get changed). Try checking /var/log/Xorg.0.log and /var/log/messages.

I don't see anything in either one that makes any sense to me. You are welcome to take a look.

http://larsen8937.googlepages.com/messages.txt

and

http://larsen8937.googlepages.com/Xorg_0_log.txt

[SheeEttin]

Re: nVidia proprietary driver kills Hibernate

Nope, neither show anything useful. Don't know what to say... I don't think anyone got their hibernate problems resolved.

However, you may want to check out the warnings about your wireless card... seems like one of those things you don't want to ignore.