Getting Suspend and Hibernate to work with compiz fusion and the NVIDIA binary driver on a Dell E1505N

I spent several hours hacking this today, and I finally have a surefire (if somewhat hacky) way of getting suspend and resume to work on my Inspiron E1505N.

Because of a bug in the NVIDIA Binary (which supposedly is going to be fixed this september), compiz-fusion crashes pretty much everything on resume.

First: So the first thing you’ll need to do is update your /etx/X11/xorg.conf and add an

“Option “NvAGP” “1″ line in the “Section “Device”"“

Section "Device"          ...          Option           "NvAGP"          "1" EndSection...

Second: Disable warm-booting and vbe post/save options on resume by editing your /etc/default/acpi-support:

...

# Should we attempt to warm-boot the video hardware  on resume?POST_VIDEO=false

# Should we save and restore state using VESA BIOS Extensions?SAVE_VBE_STATE=false

...

Third: Create a file called 25-compiz-kill.sh in your /etc/acpi/resume.d/ After creating it, type in terminal: sudo chmod 711 /etc/acpi/resume.d/25-compiz-kill.sh

#!/bin/bash#/etc/acpi/resume.d/25-compiz-kill.shkillalll compiz.real

Fourth: Create a file in /etc/acpi/resume.d called 99-compiz-resume.sh
            Then type: sudo chmod 711 99-compiz-resume.sh

Edit this file to have the following

#!/bin/bash#/etc/acpi/resume.d/99-compiz-resume.sh

export DISPLAY=:0.0sudo -H -b -u your_user_id compiz --replace &

And lastly, go into compiz-config settings, under General Options, and Display settings, and uncheck v-sync to blank.

And that’s it =) Now it’s important to note that this only works for 1 user. Which is generally fine for a laptop, I wasn’t able to get it to work with the $USER wildcard. If anyone has improvements to this, please let me know. I’m not very good at scripting so there’s obviously a better solution, but this is a very very simple and direct way to do it, so if your more advanced scripts fail, this is pretty much guaranteed to work.

Edit: Thanks to Andy in comments.