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Fingel

Member

Registered: 2009-02-28

Posts: 98

Suspend with Dell Inspiron 1720 and Nvidia closed source drivers

Hey all! I'm really liking arch linux. That being said, it would be nice if I could get suspend to ram (or disk) working on my laptop (dell Inspiron 1720 with Nvidia geforce 8800m) .
I followed the directions on the wiki for pm-ultils. When I try pm-suspend, my devices like mice and external HD's shut off, but all I get is a black screen with a blinking undercursor - the system does not appear to really suspend. Nothing will bring the system back, and I have to hard reboot.
I tried insatlling uswsusp and followed the directions for that, but get the same result. Here is my /var/log/pm-suspend.log:

Initial commandline parameters: 
Wed Mar 11 15:17:58 PDT 2009: Running hooks for suspend.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00auto-quirk suspend suspend: Adding quirks from HAL: --quirk-vbe-post 
success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend: Linux FancyHotel 2.6.28-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Feb 22 11:03:50 UTC 2009 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7300 @ 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Module                  Size  Used by
nls_cp437               7424  0 
vfat                   12800  0 
fat                    50592  1 vfat
ipv6                  260340  12 
fuse                   53020  2 
ext2                   66184  1 
btusb                  13464  0 
bluetooth              54372  1 btusb
usblp                  13952  0 
hid_logitech           11392  0 
ff_memless              6792  1 hid_logitech
usbhid                 36640  1 hid_logitech
hid                    40704  2 hid_logitech,usbhid
uvcvideo               57736  0 
compat_ioctl32          3072  1 uvcvideo
ext3                  127112  1 
videodev               34176  1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat            15364  2 uvcvideo,videodev
jbd                    46996  1 ext3
joydev                 11712  0 
mmc_block              11012  1 
usb_storage            95552  1 
snd_seq_oss            31872  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      8192  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                49968  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device          8204  2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            40192  0 
snd_mixer_oss          16512  1 snd_pcm_oss
sdhci_pci               9088  0 
sdhci                  17028  1 sdhci_pci
arc4                    3712  2 
ecb                     4608  2 
ohci1394               31280  0 
mmc_core               46876  2 mmc_block,sdhci
psmouse                55828  0 
uhci_hcd               24592  0 
b44                    28560  0 
ssb                    40964  1 b44
pcmcia                 35532  1 ssb
pcmcia_core            34452  2 ssb,pcmcia
mii                     6528  1 b44
iwl3945                91128  0 
rfkill                 11596  2 iwl3945
mac80211              161184  1 iwl3945
led_class               5508  1 iwl3945
nvidia               7227388  0 
snd_hda_intel         412980  0 
snd_pcm                70020  2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel
snd_timer              21384  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         10120  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep               9092  1 snd_hda_intel
snd                    50852  9 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
serio_raw               7172  0 
ehci_hcd               36876  0 
ricoh_mmc               5632  0 
ieee1394               79940  1 ohci1394
wmi                     7848  0 
video                  18704  0 
output                  4608  1 video
cfg80211               31760  2 iwl3945,mac80211
soundcore               8160  1 snd
sg                     26804  0 
usbcore               136848  8 btusb,usblp,usbhid,uvcvideo,usb_storage,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
intel_agp              27836  0 
agpgart                31572  2 nvidia,intel_agp
ide_cd_mod             38152  0 
cdrom                  35360  1 ide_cd_mod
i2c_i801               10896  0 
i2c_core               22804  2 nvidia,i2c_i801
iTCO_wdt               12836  0 
iTCO_vendor_support     4996  1 iTCO_wdt
dcdbas                  9120  0 
evdev                  11296  9 
thermal                17180  0 
fan                     6276  0 
button                  7824  0 
battery                12036  0 
ac                      6020  0 
cpufreq_powersave       3456  0 
cpufreq_ondemand        8972  2 
acpi_cpufreq            9868  0 
freq_table              5632  2 cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq
processor              41388  4 thermal,acpi_cpufreq
rtc_cmos               12332  0 
rtc_core               17564  1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib                 4480  1 rtc_core
ext4                  218268  2 
mbcache                 8708  3 ext2,ext3,ext4
jbd2                   55192  1 ext4
crc16                   3712  1 ext4
sd_mod                 26904  7 
ahci                   30988  4 
libata                157856  1 ahci
scsi_mod              102164  4 usb_storage,sg,sd_mod,libata
piix                    8200  0 
ide_core              103112  2 ide_cd_mod,piix
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2073576     984996    1088580          0     141968     741552
-/+ buffers/cache:     101476    1972100
Swap:      1052248          0    1052248
success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/01grub suspend suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/11netcfg suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49bluetooth suspend suspend: not applicable.
/etc/pm/sleep.d/50-hdparm_pm suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55NetworkManager suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/55wicd suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90chvt suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90clock suspend suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/94cpufreq suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95led suspend suspend: not applicable.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98smart-kernel-video suspend suspend: success.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend: kernel.acpi_video_flags = 0
success.
Wed Mar 11 15:17:59 PDT 2009: performing suspend

I have not put anything my /etc/pm/config.d/ because the wiki was pretty vague and Im not sure what to do there.
I tried using uswsusp s2ram but that does not work. I added uresume to my /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and rebuilt the image to no avail.
s2ram -n shows this:

Machine matched entry 99:
    sys_vendor   = 'Dell Inc.'
    sys_product  = 'Inspiron 1720 *'
    sys_version  = ''
    bios_version = ''
Fixes: 0x0  
This machine can be identified by:
    sys_vendor   = "Dell Inc."
    sys_product  = "Inspiron 1720                   "
    sys_version  = ""
    bios_version = "A08"
See http://suspend.sf.net/s2ram-support.html for details.

If you report a problem, please include the complete output above.

which looks to me like I am whitelisted. Am I missing something here? Should I be using one of the DM's power managers? It would be cool just to be able to suspend with a command but if I have to use something else no problem as long as it works.
Running out of ideas, hope you guys can help. Plus the hard rebooting is wrecking my drive, I can see the non-contiguous percent rise each time.

Thanks.

TheFridgeMaster

Member

Registered: 2010-02-28

Posts: 1

Re: Suspend with Dell Inspiron 1720 and Nvidia closed source drivers

I know this is an old thread and i shouldn't be posting but i have been looking EVERYWHERE for anybody that has successfully installed an 8800M inside of an inspiron 1720... i was just wondering how you went about it???

Thanks.