Dell 8500 Inspiron suspend to ram with nvidia
Out of the box Debian 4.0 works well. Install was a breeze. Suspend and
resume will work with open drivers.
Complaints:
With open source nv driver DPMS will not blank the screen (nvidia does).
A nasty white smudging starts creeping over the screen. Reproduce this
with lid switch or DPMS event (xorg setting or using xset)
With nvidia resume will fail. The machine will attempt to resume only to
end up with a mostly black screen and a complete hardware hang. I know
this is not a Debian issue and much more likely to be the driver. If
only nvidia went open source. Am going to look into some patches (but
they are old) http://www.loria.fr/~thome/d600/
<http://www.loria.fr/%7Ethome/d600/> and take a look at suspend2. I have
compiled 2.6.20 kernel and setup NvAGP instead of agpgart without making
any difference. Gentoo has a great article on 8600
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Get_Suspend_To_RAM_working_on_a_Dell_Inspiron_8600c_laptop
Other Niggles:
xorg didn't do a bad job on screen, but the mouse is setup all wrong and
synaptics need configuring (or commenting) to work properly.
Volume controls don't work
Any other experiences with Dell laptops and suspend, preferable the
successful ones, I would love to here from you.
Dan Phillips
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