Dell Precision M4600 - Nvidia 2000M

[Kernellinux]

Greetings Fedora fans,

Installed Fedora 16 on a Dell Precision M4600. With the nouveau driver the computer will not suspend or hibernate. I followed the nvidia guide on this site and that fixed the suspend problem, but created a flicker. It is almost as if the backlight is being turned down and up at 60/sec. Also when the system key is pressed and the windows cascade there is a ghosting effect almost as if the screen has burned in. The problem is not constant and maybe appears once every 10 minutes, then the system returns to work as usual.

Here is my question, do I...

A. Leave the Nouveau driver run and wait for support for suspend (will it ever come?)
B. Attept to troubleshoot the Nvidia driver (Any ideas on how?)
C. Use the "official Nvidia driver" as seen as this link titled 'the wrong way' (seems silly to follow a guide titled the wrong way"

Thanks

KL

[Adunaic]

I would troubleshoot a bit more. I also have Dell Precision M4600 - Nvidia 2000M but have no issues with the backlight.

[Kernellinux]

@Adunaic,

Did you install additional Nvidia drivers or use the default one in Fedora? If you installed the Nvidia drivers did you use this guide?

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=204752

If so, which part of the guide did you use.

I'm glad to know this is a solvable problem...

Thanks for the help

KL

[jcwenger]

60hz flicker on the M4600 is due to dithering.

The Setting is in NVIDIA X Server Settings -> DFP-5 -> Controls tab.
Several ways to fix it: Disable Dithering, or Change mode to static.
For whatever reason, settings here don't persisist across restarts of X. Boo.

The persistent fix is this:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

...
Section "Device"
     Identifier "Videocard0"
     Driver     "nvidia"
     Option "FlatPanelProperties" "DFP-5: Dithering = Disabled"
EndSection

[jcwenger]

Originally Posted by Kernellinux

Installed Fedora 16 on a Dell Precision M4600. With the nouveau driver the computer will not suspend or hibernate. I followed the nvidia guide on this site and that fixed the suspend problem…

Searched and can't find what you're referencing. Link please?