As discussed on IRC there is no real working support for suspend (even suspend to RAM or the like) for nv50 yet. Would be great to get this working, maybe by the help of using KMS or so? I'm willing to help test things if possible.
Have you tried it, suspend to ram works fine for my 8400gs. This does require you running kms.
Got some problems using KMS, but that's another issue I guess. Basic startup works though. I can login and see a KDE-desktop. With KMS: When trying to Suspend to RAM the system seems to flush diskcache etc. and screen goes blank. However the machine doesn't suspend. Moving the mouse I get the password-prompt of the screensaver and can login again. After that login various graphics-errors occur (horizontal stripes, looks like maybe charsets are a bit messed up etc.). However if you know where in the menue e.g. "Restart" is you're at least able to find that. Without KMS: I can suspend-to-RAM fine. When powering on the machine again the laptop-screen-backlight also goes on but the screen stays black. It looks like you're able to control the system (pressing the power-button it e.g. seems to go to suspend again) etc., but no output on the screen whatsoever.
S2R should work fine now for your card. Can you verify it?
It appears that this bug report has laid dormant for quite a while. Sorry we haven't gotten to it. Since we fix bugs all the time, chances are pretty good that your issue has been fixed with the latest software. Please give it a shot. (Linux kernel 3.10.7, xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.9, mesa 9.1.6, or their git versions.) If upgrading to the latest isn't an option for you, your distro's bugzilla is probably the right destination for your bug report. In an effort to clean up our bug list, we're pre-emptively closing all bugs that haven't seen updates since 2011. If the original issue remains, please make sure to provide fresh info, see http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs/ for what we need to see, and re-open this one. Thanks, The Nouveau Team
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