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

To /etc/default/acpi-support:

ACPI_SLEEP=true<br></br>ACPI_HIBERNATE=true<br></br>ACPI_SLEEP_MODE=mem<br></br>MODULES=""<br></br>MODULES_WHITELIST=""<br></br>SAVE_VBE_STATE=false<br></br>VBESTATE=/var/lib/acpi-support/vbestate<br></br>POST_VIDEO=false<br></br>SAVE_VIDEO_PCI_STATE=false<br></br>USE_DPMS=true<br></br>HIBERNATE_MODE=shutdown<br></br>LOCK_SCREEN=false<br></br>STOP_SERVICES=""<br></br>RESTART_IRDA=false<br></br>ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE=false<br></br>SPINDOWN_TIME=12<br></br>

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

Comments:

Len -

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.

rodiq -

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

Thankful -

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.

Don Rozenberg -

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

mikeos -

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