Install Gutsy

11.11.2007 | Author: len | Posted in work

The install

Finally after the painful upgrade I decided to do a fresh install on a different partition. After the bad experience of the upgrade the install was rather simple. After installing everything I had the following results:

  • video – ok after installing nvidia-glx-new using the restricted manager
  • sound – ok but recording still bad
  • wireless – ok
  • suspend, hibernate – no
  • data migration – I linked the new home directory to the home on the other partition and everything was ok

Other packages

I installed most of the other required base packages for me using automatix2 and apt-get. Did not required to compile pidgin as it was already installed.

Suspend

After lots of tries here are the modifications to make suspend working.

To /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"        Identifier      "nVidia Corporation G72M [GeForce Go 7400]"        Driver          "nvidia"        Busid           "PCI:1:0:0"        Option          "AddARGBVisuals"        "True"        Option          "AddARGBGLXVisuals"     "True"        Option          "NoLogo"                "True"        Option          "NvAGP"                 "1"EndSection

To /etc/default/acpi-support:

ACPI_SLEEP=trueACPI_HIBERNATE=trueACPI_SLEEP_MODE=memMODULES=""MODULES_WHITELIST=""SAVE_VBE_STATE=falseVBESTATE=/var/lib/acpi-support/vbestatePOST_VIDEO=falseSAVE_VIDEO_PCI_STATE=falseUSE_DPMS=trueHIBERNATE_MODE=shutdownLOCK_SCREEN=falseSTOP_SERVICES=""RESTART_IRDA=falseENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE=falseSPINDOWN_TIME=12

After this the suspend works ok. I still want to try hibernate and uswsusp but this will be for another time.

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7 Responses

  1. mikeos November 13th, 2007 at 17:56

    I still couldn’t suspend my D820 running Gutsy. I disabled kpowersave and enabled Power Manager which comes by default with Hardy and it resolved my problem.

    The only modification I had to do was to /etc/default/acpi-support:

    SAVE_VBE_STATE=false

    POST_VIDEO=false

    DOUBLE_CONSOLE_SWITCH=true

    Both suspend/resume + hibernate/unhibernate work smoothly now. Screen gets locked after resume and I get back to the proper tty (no need to CTRL+ALT+Fsomething). After unhibernation I just need to manually switch to online mode from KNetworkManager tray icon.

    btw.: Hardy is more stable for me than Gutsy, you just need to be careful what you’re doing everytime you upgrade.

    My system: Dell Latitude D820, nVidia Quadro

  2. rodiq January 8th, 2008 at 21:24

    Thanks, I needed the suspend workaround and it worked imediately. Great to have the solution I needed.

  3. Thankful February 21st, 2008 at 13:17

    Just wanted to say thanks.

    Suspend quit working for me, after upgrading to Gutsy. All I did was change SAVE_VBE_STATE=true to match what you have (i.e. false) and it’s now working again.

  4. Don Rozenberg February 24th, 2008 at 11:54

    I would like just a bit more info on installing power manager. I am running Kubuntu Gutsy with kpowersave and find that resume often leaves my usb keyboard dead until I use my usb mouse to restart the x-server. I saw the kpowersave post and installed gnome-power-manager. I was able to suspend and resume, but I have no icon. Is there a way for me to get an icon in the KDE panel.

    I apologize if this is not an appropriate place to ask this question.

    Thanks, in Advance,

    Don

  5. Len February 24th, 2008 at 11:56

    Sorry Don, I have no idea how to add an icon to KDE, I am more command-line oriented and haven’t used KDE in a while.

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