Alsa & suspend...

[Thomas Wimmer]

Bill Mair wrote:
> 
> > I use a thinkpad 570, and everything is perfect, except
> > that the alsa driver does not like suspend mode...
> > I'd like to find a way to unload the driver with apm
> > when entering suspend mode, but the main problem is to
> > first kill all applications using sound.
> >
> > Does someone have an idea?
> 
> apmd can call a script when the system is suspended/resumed.

but only if you do have the patched apmd:
	http://www.cut.de/bkr/linux/apmd/apmd.html

the "original" apmd (both 2.4) doesn´t have this feature

> In there you can unload/load the ALSA modules, and before
> doing that kill all x11amp, xmixer, and what ever programs
> may be using the resource.

do you have a script for that ?
currently i do a "rmmod cs4232 && insmod cs4232 ... > /dev/null"
only, but of course that doesn´t take care of the aforementioned
programms.

> Bill.

Thomas
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