Getting sleep and hibernate working on a Dell Inspiron 8500

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Thursday 21 February 2008 02:08:30 pm Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> On Thursday 21 February 2008 11:43:18 am Robert Menes wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Howard Coles Jr. <dhcolesj at gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > What video driver are you running?  I've had lots of problems with this
> > > running the Nvidia binary drivers.
> > >
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> > > Howard Coles Jr.
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> > Hi Howard,
> >
> > Yes, I'm running the Nvidia drivers. What happens is the laptop does go
> > into hibernation, but doesn't
> > properly come out of it. It instead just restarts a new session entirely.
> >
> > Do you have a solution or workaround to this?
> >
> > --Rob
> > (Kubuntu user and damn proud of it)
>
> I hate to say it, but that sounds about right.  I get all kinds of
> weirdness when I restart after hibernating, from just a black screen, no
> wireless, no response at all, etc.  It doesn't seem to have a specific
> pattern on my laptop.
>
> The problem Is the only solution I have found is to run the nv driver
> instead of nvidia's Binary drivers.

I know, replying to your own email is bad.

However, just for kicks, and since I haven't tried it in a long time, I 
hibernated and then woke up my Dell E1705 and it worked.  Best I recall this 
would work every now and then, and I couldn't do it more than once without 
rebooting even with the nv driver.  So, you may want to update to the latest 
version of Envy (an app that will install the nvidia drivers) and install the 
latest version of the drivers.  At least if your machine is like mine, you'll 
have a shot at it waking up right, :-O.

-- 
See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!