Re: APM suspend system lockup under 2.4.2 and 2.4.2ac1

2001-03-01 Thread John Fremlin
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Why not use kernel/pm.c:pm_register? Then you can either refuse > > suspend or have a proper workaround. > > Feel free to provide code. You have me there - I should have realised who I was writing to ;-) [...] > I dont have the hardware I neither.

Re: APM suspend system lockup under 2.4.2 and 2.4.2ac1

2001-03-01 Thread Alan Cox
> Why not use kernel/pm.c:pm_register? Then you can either refuse > suspend or have a proper workaround. Feel free to provide code. I suspect you can do something like refuse to suspend if the device is open at all and reload the firmware, reinit it on resume if it was idle. I dont have the hard

Re: APM suspend system lockup under 2.4.2 and 2.4.2ac1

2001-03-01 Thread John Fremlin
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > the sound card is a yamaha YMF-744B. i hadn't been > > compiling with sound support (i dont care about sound > > on my laptop), but when i got 2.4.2 i decided to try, > > and now i'm pretty sure that was the problem. > > The Yamaha sound driver doesnt h

Re: APM suspend system lockup under 2.4.2 and 2.4.2ac1

2001-02-24 Thread Alan Cox
> the sound card is a yamaha YMF-744B. i hadn't been > compiling with sound support (i dont care about sound > on my laptop), but when i got 2.4.2 i decided to try, > and now i'm pretty sure that was the problem. The Yamaha sound driver doesnt handle the case where the bios fails to restore the

Re: APM suspend system lockup under 2.4.2 and 2.4.2ac1

2001-02-23 Thread bradley mclain
i thought that it was my network driver (xircom), but i recompiled 2.4.2 without sound support and apm --suspend has begun to work again. the sound card is a yamaha YMF-744B. i hadn't been compiling with sound support (i dont care about sound on my laptop), but when i got 2.4.2 i decided to try,

Re: APM suspend system lockup under 2.4.2 and 2.4.2ac1

2001-02-23 Thread bradley mclain
i thought that it was my network driver, but i recompiled 2.4.2 without sound support and apm --suspend has begun to work again. the sound card is a yamaha YMF-744B. i hadn't been compiling with sound support (i dont care about sound on my laptop), but when i got 2.4.2 i decided to try, and now

Re: APM suspend system lockup under 2.4.2 and 2.4.2ac1

2001-02-23 Thread John Fremlin
Unfortunately, the APM maintainer, Stephen Rothwell, seems to have gone into hibernation (pun) and is not responding to emails. bradley mclain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > apm --suspend causes my system to hang under 2.4.2 and 2.4.2ac1. it > was working fine under 2.4.1ac19. looking at syslog

APM suspend system lockup under 2.4.2 and 2.4.2ac1

2001-02-22 Thread bradley mclain
apm --suspend causes my system to hang under 2.4.2 and 2.4.2ac1. it was working fine under 2.4.1ac19. looking at syslog it appears that the driver for my xircom pcmcia card may be involved -- it was the last entry on two of three occasions. the latest lockup (under 2.4.1ac1) left no trace in sy