POST_VIDEO option need to be commented on Dell Latitude D800

Bug #14833 reported by Frederic Parrenin
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pm-utils (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

On my laptop (Dell latitude D800, with NVIDIA GeForce 5650), the suspend (to
disk and to RAM) did not work out of the box.
The POST_VIDEO=true option need to be commented.

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Matthew Garrett (mjg59) wrote :

Could you please provide the output of the dmidecode command?

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Frederic Parrenin (parrenin-frederic) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=3434)
This is the output of the dmidecode command.

Here it is.

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Matthew Garrett (mjg59) wrote :

Is this using the binary nvidia driver, or the standard nv one?

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Frederic Parrenin (parrenin-frederic) wrote :

The nvidia driver.

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Matthew Garrett (mjg59) wrote :

If you use the nv driver, does it resume without POST_VIDEO being set?

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Frederic Parrenin (parrenin-frederic) wrote :

As far as I remember, I never used the nv driver.
At install, the display was not working and the solution I found was to install
the nvidia driver to make it work.
Sorry, I don't have time these days to test the nv driver.

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

Hi Frederic,

Thanks for your report and providing the dmidecode data. It'd like to whitelist this and need to know if the "POST_VIDEO" is binary-nvidia specific.

Could you please test this if you still have access to the laptop; It should just require a quick edit to:

  /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and changing the 'nvidia' to 'nv'. Testing Suspend to RAM and then changing it back with a second reboot.

Many Thanks,

Changed in acpi-support:
status: Confirmed → Needs Info
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Frederic Parrenin (parrenin-frederic) wrote :

Hi Paul,

I recently reinstalled entirely Breezy.
You can find some details on the installation here:
http://parrenin.frederic.free.fr/DellLatitudeD800/linux-DellLatitudeD800.html

I indeed tested the nv driver, and it does not need to set the POST_VIDEO flag at false.
This is really nvidia specific.

Thank you for your work, Frederic

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Ryan Kavanagh (ryanakca) wrote :

Is this still a problem? If not, please feel free to close this bug.

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Frederic Parrenin (parrenin-frederic) wrote :

It is still a problem, but only with the proprietary nvidia driver.
I don't know ubuntu policy for bugs specific to this nvidia driver.

Simon Law (sfllaw)
Changed in acpi-support:
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

Slightly related to Bug #34043 ...

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David MacKinnon (blaedd) wrote :

Having POST_VIDEO=true also stops resume working on a T60p (FireGL 5200) with the fglrx driver. This is driver 8.37.6 in gutsy Tribe 2.

The same system with the vesa driver suspends/resumes fine with POST_VIDEO=true

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kacheng (kacheng) wrote :

I can confirm that POST_VIDEO=true stops resume working on nvidia driver in edgy.

Possibly related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/20195

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Zsuzsanna Sukosd (dsokus) wrote :

I have the same problem, on a completely different system - hibernation worked automatically but for resume from suspend I needed to comment that line too.

This is with a fresh Feisty install on a Toshiba M400, and my video driver is i810.

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Zsuzsanna Sukosd (dsokus) wrote :

Sorry, the above confirmation of the bug may not be correct - I have just found that even with that line commented, resume doesn't work consistently (even though it did for the first time after I commented it!), so the problem may in actuality be caused by something unrelated.

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zeddock (zeddock) wrote :

Not sure if I can help or not but I am on a Dell D800
Tell me what to do in order for me to provide you the info you need...

zeddock

Steve Langasek (vorlon)
affects: acpi-support (Ubuntu) → pm-utils (Ubuntu)
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rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thank you for posting this issue.

Does this occur in Lucid?

Changed in pm-utils (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Closing because of no response.

Changed in pm-utils (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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