Also confirms this problem (at least the exact same message in the syslog). Machine: HP 8730w Mobile Workstation. Ubuntu 10.04 (updated today) / x86_64 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9000 @ 2.00GHz RAM: 8GB DDR2 GPU: NVIDIA GPU Quadro FX 2700M (G94GL) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0) Please let me know whether you anything more than the below to help narrowing down the problem. Steps to duplicate: 1. Start 2. Standby (sleep button or GUI) 3. Resume (power button) => never wakes up completely, following error message looping in the syslog: Mar 15 20:37:26 kerdelan acpid: client connected from 2351[0:0] Mar 15 20:37:26 kerdelan acpid: 1 client rule loaded Mar 15 20:37:26 kerdelan kernel: [ 200.952265] ACPI Warning for \_SB_.PCI0.PEGP.DGFX.MXMI: Excess arguments - needs 1, found 2 (20090903/nspredef-303) Mar 15 20:37:26 kerdelan kernel: [ 200.952320] ACPI Warning for \_SB_.PCI0.PEGP.DGFX.MXMS: Excess arguments - needs 1, found 2 (20090903/nspredef-303) Mar 15 20:37:30 kerdelan kernel: [ 205.157883] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0x38:1076) Mar 15 20:37:30 kerdelan kernel: [ 205.157890] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed Mar 15 20:37:30 kerdelan gdm-simple-slave[2353]: WARNING: Unable to load file '/etc/gdm/custom.conf': No such file or directory Mar 15 20:37:30 kerdelan acpid: client 2351[0:0] has disconnected In case that matter, the NVRM initialization line: Feb 26 12:20:09 kerdelan kernel: [ 199.814862] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 195.36.03 Mon Feb 1 18:33:51 PST 2010 And I also have the following entry that looks suspicious: Mar 15 19:04:08 kerdelan kernel: [ 2122.928262] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 54, CMDre 00000000 00000080 00000000 00000005 00000005 Mar 15 19:04:11 kerdelan kernel: [ 2125.957553] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 54, CMDre 00000000 00000080 00000000 00000005 00000005 Mar 15 19:04:11 kerdelan kernel: [ 2125.957645] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 54, CMDre 00000000 00000080 00000000 00000005 00000005 Mar 15 19:04:11 kerdelan kernel: [ 2125.957733] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 54, CMDre 00000000 00000080 00000000 00000005 00000005 Mar 15 19:04:14 kerdelan kernel: [ 2129.078431] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 54, CMDre 00000000 00000080 00000000 00000005 00000005 Mar 15 19:04:14 kerdelan kernel: [ 2129.078586] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 54, CMDre 00000000 00000080 00000000 00000005 00000005 Mar 15 19:04:14 kerdelan gdm-session-worker[3451]: WARNING: Unable to load file '/etc/gdm/custom.conf': No such file or directory Mar 15 19:04:14 kerdelan rtkit-daemon[1404]: Recovering from system lockup, not allowing further RT threads. Mar 15 19:04:14 kerdelan rtkit-daemon[1404]: last message repeated 10 times Xorg.log startup: (**) Mar 15 20:38:28 NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration (II) Mar 15 20:38:28 NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is (II) Mar 15 20:38:28 NVIDIA(0): enabled. (II) Mar 15 20:38:30 NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU Quadro FX 2700M (G94GL) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0) (--) Mar 15 20:38:30 NVIDIA(0): Memory: 524288 kBytes (--) Mar 15 20:38:30 NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 62.94.42.00.05 (II) Mar 15 20:38:30 NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X (--) Mar 15 20:38:30 NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU (--) Mar 15 20:38:30 NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on Quadro FX 2700M at PCI:1:0:0: (--) Mar 15 20:38:30 NVIDIA(0): LGD LP171WU5-TLB1 (DFP-0) (--) Mar 15 20:38:30 NVIDIA(0): LGD LP171WU5-TLB1 (DFP-0): 330.0 MHz maximum pixel clock (--) Mar 15 20:38:30 NVIDIA(0): LGD LP171WU5-TLB1 (DFP-0): Internal Dual Link LVDS (II) Mar 15 20:38:31 NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: DFP-0 (==) Mar 15 20:38:31 NVIDIA(0): (==) Mar 15 20:38:31 NVIDIA(0): No modes were requested; the default mode "nvidia-auto-select" (==) Mar 15 20:38:31 NVIDIA(0): will be used as the requested mode. (==) Mar 15 20:38:31 NVIDIA(0): (II) Mar 15 20:38:31 NVIDIA(0): Validated modes: (II) Mar 15 20:38:31 NVIDIA(0): "nvidia-auto-select" (II) Mar 15 20:38:31 NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1920 x 1200 (--) Mar 15 20:38:32 NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (131, 132); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config (--) Mar 15 20:38:32 NVIDIA(0): option (WW) Mar 15 20:38:32 NVIDIA(0): UBB is incompatible with the Composite extension. Disabling (WW) Mar 15 20:38:32 NVIDIA(0): UBB. (==) Mar 15 20:38:32 NVIDIA(0): Enabling 32-bit ARGB GLX visuals. (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp (II) Mar 15 20:38:32 NVIDIA: Using 768.00 MB of virtual memory for indirect framebuffer (II) Mar 15 20:38:32 NVIDIA: access. (II) Mar 15 20:38:32 NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART. (II) Mar 15 20:38:32 NVIDIA(0): ACPI display change hotkey events enabled: the X server is new (II) Mar 15 20:38:32 NVIDIA(0): enough to receive ACPI hotkey events. (II) Mar 15 20:38:32 NVIDIA(0): ACPI brightness change hotkey events enabled.