sitsolfe: The behaviour reported above is about hibernate. With the nv driver, the system behaves the same way as it behaves with the 3D nvidia driver withouth the NvAGP option, i.e., failure to hibernate, total lock, black screen and no response to power button.
I don't use suspend, but I just tested it in order to have a more complete report. Under both nv and nvidia drivers, and, for the nvidia binary driver, with and without the NvAGP option set, the behaviour is the same: total lock, black screen and no response to power button. The system doesn't suspend successfully, because the disk and fan are still active. Please, let me know if there's more information I can provide. ** Description changed: Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.20 My Sony VAIO PCG-GRT916Z hangs while going into hibernation and cannot complete the process. The screen goes black, with a blinking text cursor in the upper left corner, the CAPS LOCK and SCROLL LOCK leds blink, the POWER led is lit, and the fan is active. At this point, the laptop won't - respond to any output, not even pressing and holding the power button to + respond to any input, not even pressing and holding the power button to force a power off. The only way to "recover" from this state is to cut off power (remove battery and unplug). At the next power-on, a plain boot sequence is executed, i.e. no attempt to resume is made. I found reports pertaining failure to resume from suspend/hibernate on Sony VAIO when using the binary nvidia drivers. Although my symptoms are quite different, I tried the steps described in this wiki page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NvidiaLaptopBinaryDriverSuspend After setting NvAGP to 1, the VAIO still won't hibernate, but in a slightly friendlier way. The screen gets filled with a kernel error message in an endless loop, and it is possible to power down the laptop by pressing and holding the power button. No other form of input seems to get any effect. This is the text of the error message: atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying access hardware directly. I have a digital photo of the screen, in case you might find it useful. I also tried with the free nvidia drivers, but they behave the same way as the non-free drivers without the NvAGP option set, i.e. the screen goes black with no message, and the system gets completely frozen. I'm going to attach output from dmesg, lspci -vv and lspci -vvn -- Failure to hibernate on Sony Vaio https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/106832 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
