nvidia display wakeup problems

[andy baxter]

Gary Allen Garibaldi wrote:
> Has anybody seen this behavior or know how to try troubleshooting it?
>
> I installed nvidia-glx driver on 7.04 using synaptic and modified my
> xorg.conf to use nvidia on my Toshiba Porgege S100. Everything seems to
> work okay except with the display goes into sleep mode. I have to use
> Control - Alt F2-F5 then control - alt F7 to get it to wake up. When I
> connect my external monitor to the laptop the mouse and any key will
> wake up that monitor. I've search google without any real results, I've
> read the nvidia web page help file and man xorg.conf which is way above
> my knowledge of understanding. I've even tried upgrading to
> nvidia-glx-new but that seems to work but will not fully place the
> display in a black screen sleep mode (back light doesn't turn off but
> will turn the display gray), so switch back to the nvidia-glx.
>
> Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Gary
>   
Not an answer to your problem, but I'm using a laptop with an nvidia 
chip, and it seems to need the mouse moving twice sometimes to wake it 
after the display has blanked. When I first move the mouse, nothing 
seems to happen, but the second time, the display comes back.

andy.