Acer Aspire 5002 Ubuntu 8.04 64 Suspend?… it was the nvida…

So I’ve been waiting for fast and easy vitalization of XP, better WiFi support, and Supend and Hibernate to work before I started using Linux full time.  I finally found out why my suspend was coming back with a blank screen.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=4960695&postcount=25

Basically, one needs to tell the system to redraw the screen on resume.

http://blog.vaxius.net/?p=43

I used the following and it worked for me, thanks sean!

$ sudo gedit /etc/default/acpi-support

SAVE_VBE_STATE=false
POST_VIDEO=false
USE_DPMS=false

then

$ sudo gedit /etc/acpi/suspend.d/03-nvidia-override-post.sh

Make the script look like the following:

#!/bin/sh

SAVE_VBE_STATE=false
POST_VIDEO=false
USE_DPMS=false

Tags: blank screen, hibernate, linux, nvidia, suspend, ubuntu