Sleep issues after memory & video upgrades

Hi Iain MacLeod,

I cannot see any serious error in log. All are "success" , "success" .. etc.

Have you installed any of the restricted Nvidia drivers ?

I have an Nvidia GT210 , and works without problems.

Try to install the updated drivers from terminal . Issue the following commands , one by one . (Copy -paste from here)

     sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*
     sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
     sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-headers-$(uname -r)
     sudo apt-get install nvidia-current-updates nvidia-settings-updates ubuntu-desktop
     sudo nvidia-xconfig

Reboot your system and retest suspend - resume.

Thanks

Thanks Nick,
I wasn't using any special drivers, I just installed the card and it worked, so I tried that this morning before I left for work.

It didn't look good, the display's dropped to something like 800x600, the windows are missing the min/max/close boxes, desktop doesn't cycle through the open windows. I'll have a proper look at things when I get home tonight...

Hi Iain MacLeod,

usually in Linux-based systems , you don't need to install a driver. Open source drivers (for nvidia is nouveau) are pre-installed and when you install a new hardware then the appropriate pre-installed driver will be loaded.

For better results and better performance some Operating Systems (like Ubuntu) recommend the closed source drivers.

In Ubuntu 12.04 and later , multiple closed source drivers are exist for Nvidia.

If the current-updates driver not works for you , you can try to install another available driver.

You can see a list of available Nvidia drivers with a command such as

     apt-cache search nvidia | grep NVIDIA

some of them are for older cards . nvidia-96 , nvidia-173 .. and some are for newer cards (like yours)
nvidia-current , nvidia-current-updates , nvidia-experimantal-304 and 310.

So if the nvidia-current-updates not work for you, try with the same commands (same order , one by one) as are in answer #1 to install nvidia-experimental-304.

You have only to replace the nvidia-current-updates with nvidia-experimental-304 and nvidia-settings-updates with nvidia-settings-experimental-304

Also, probably this is not needed , but sometimes helps , try to install your linux-source package (kernel's source) before you begin the nvidia driver installation process.

    sudo apt-get install linux-source
    sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

Thank you.

Nick,
I tried some of the alternates but didn't manage to resolve the issue.

I've been meaning to update the XP that was dual booted on the box for while, so, I started from scratch and got rid of it and Kubuntu and went back to the dark side; the PC's got Win7 on it for now.

Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time to help.

PS.
The system still had an issue even under Win7; it will only wake up when the BIOS is changed to POS - Power On Standby - rather than STR -Suspend To RAM - (this also reveled the Hibernate option in Win7; only had Sleep under STR).

Not sure why it should have an issue with that, the old and very basic x1300 card I was using previously was OK and the system came back from sleep/suspend quickly. POS doesn't seem much faster than a normal boot, but at least it works.

I might dual boot the box again and see if Kubuntu suspends OK with the different BIOS setting.

The MB is a MS-7235 P965 Neo.