[COLUG] Ubuntu Suspend/Hibernate broken after last updates

[Duane]

jep200404 wrote:

> I seem to recall Franco being very enthusiastic about the board, 
> extolling the virtues of the Nvidia graphics. 
> I seem to recall that there was some driver issue with the 
> ethernet port, and that when Franco mentioned Nvidia, 
> I became very suspicious of the board and 
> wrote it off for use with Linux. 

I recently asked for advice between Nvidia and ATI, only options in the 
ASUS laptop models I was looking at, someone suggest Nvidia was "ok" 
under linux and that their friends hadn't had any problems with the nv 
driver.

Unfortunately neither the nv driver and the nvidia driver works with the 
GE 9500M GS chipset in the laptop under ubuntu with more then 2.5-3G of 
ram and I have 3G of ram, at which point the system or the OS remaps the 
video ram into 64bit memory space and the nvidia installer complains 
bitterly.

Although trying to get to the root of the problem I loaded fedora 9 live 
CD and the nv driver worked fine, but I haven't figured out what patches 
they've applied that debian or ubuntu haven't.

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