Suspend and resume on Dell E6520

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Monday 24 October 2011 12:47 pm, Sebastian Chmielewski wrote:
> Hi,
> I've reported two bugs related to suspend and resume on Dell E6520
> (misc/161715 and misc/161713).
> First is that system goes to sleep only when key sequence like
> 'Ctrl-C' is pressed after command 'zzz'.
> Second is that this system cannot resume from suspend. Nothing is
> shown on attached firewire console and removing (or not loading at
> all at boot time) nvidia.ko didn't help. I've booted kernel without
> additional modules (I've most of drivers compiled as modules) but
> it didn't help.
>
> What is needed to debug this issues?
[snip]
> vgapci0 at pci0:1:0:0:     class=0x030000 card=0x04941028
> chip=0x105610de rev=0xa1 hdr=0x00 vendor     = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
>     class      = display
>     subclass   = VGA
[snip]

Usually, we cannot resume console on NVIDIA graphics, which often 
times lack or has incomplete VBE save/restore state function.

Jung-uk Kim