8.04, Nvidia proprietary, failed logout

[Paul S]

Willy Hamra said the following on 05/26/2008 01:33 PM:
> i dont know if this is relevant, but i have nVidia, i can log out, but 
> can't hibernate! it worked fine with gutsy. but now on hardy, when i 
> click hibernate, the screen goes  off (completely with "check signal 
> cable" message) and the computer keep running like this for ever, i let 
> it stay for 20 minutes last time.

Sorry you're having that problem, but I must say that I am happy with 
nvidia on hardy.  I am not having you're logout black screen problem and 
I am not having any problem with hibernation, yet.

I had to do a fresh install and am using jfs for a file system instead 
of ext3 because the 2.6.24-16 kernel had boot problems after upgrading 
and broke my filesystem with an aggressive e2fsck.  But, the 2.6.24-17 
kernel works fine.  Also, I prefer to use the nvidia 173.08 from nvidia 
site instead of ubuntu nvidia.

One of the things the upgrade notes recommend is to allow the upgrade 
manager to replace all your configuration files with the new ones from 
the developers.  This is inconvenient because you'll  have to reset some 
of your personal settings afterward.  Maybe you didn't do this and have 
some old configs around that are acting up.  One way to check is to 
search through the files in /etc/ looking for files with a period or 
dash and the word dpkg or dpkg-config tacked on .. this could be the new 
config file that never got installed.  One quick way to search is open a 
terminal and enter

~$ sudo find /etc/ -iname '*dpkg*'

regards,