[ltp] A20p questions...

[Vivek Dasmohapatra]

On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Guy Davis wrote:

> 1) Alsa sound dying on a suspend/resume.  I'm using
> alsa-driver-0.5.9d, alsa-lib-0.5.9, and alsa-utils-0.5.9b. Basically,
> Alsa gives me a bunch of 'Device or resource busy' when downing it via
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound. Is there a patch?

You may need to kill off all the processes using the sound system before
taking alsa down. Also, have you disabled 
<Config> - <Power> - <PCI Bus Power Management>
in the BIOS? [not sure if this is relevant, but I've been told it's good
to do this]
 
> 2) X dying when suspending via a lid closing.  I think I read that
> recompiling the kernal with APM_IGNORE_SUSPEND_BOUNCE fixed this.  Has
> anyone done this for RH 7?  Were there problems?

Which Xfree are you using 3.x.x? 4.0.1x? 4.0.2?
I'm on kernel 2.2.18 and I don't see any APM_IGNORE_SUSPEND_BOUNCE in the
.config. My settings are: 

CONFIG_APM=y
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
# CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set
CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
# CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set
CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y

> 4) Hibernation.  I have a 500 MB Fat16 partition which I created a
> hibernation file on (apparently) from W2K.  However, I can't get
> hibernation to work from Linux.  Does anyone have this working?

Can't help you there: don't have a hibernation partition, since I never
booted into windows. In what way can't you get it to work? fn-f12
doesn't work? [Incidentally, if there were some way you could dd the
hibernation partition into a file and make it available for download,
I'd be interested in seeing it... ]

> 5) External Monitor.  I just finished reading the recent thread.  It
> sounds like the current XFree driver doesn't support this yet.  On a
> related note, how does (or can) one switch resolutions from Linux?

If you have different modelines available to you, Ctrl-Alt-KP_Plus
and Ctrl-Alt-KP_Minus are usually configured to cycle resolutions.
Unless you already know that, and that isn't what you were asking.
I haven't tried this out on the laptop though, since I haven't wanted
other resolutions.

Incidentally: If you go to kernel 2.2.18, you can get the /dev/agpgart
support from the 'Character Devices' section, and then you can enable the
DRI stuff in Xfree 4, which means you get hardware accelereated GL
[which isn't terribly useful, but I like it... mmmm... 3d screensavers :)]

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