[ltp] Audio + APM + T30

[Ted Johansson]

This is a related experience with a T21.

I recently spend considerable time getting suspend and hibernate to work 
with MKD9.0 and KDE. The main problem was the sound and ALSA, which 
would not restore after apm restore, with no sound at all for all 
applications. The sounder card/driver is the (snd-)cs46xx for T21. 
Mandrake uses ALSA 0.90rc3 I think. From a lot of googling, my 
impression was that the ALSA drivers does not handle apm suspend/restore 
correctly and no fix was (yet) available. And since 'kicker' (aka 
k-panel) in KDE uses sound, service sound can not be restarted without 
crashing kicker.

The way I solved the problem was to change to the kernel OSS driver 
(cs46xx) after also having download the commercial OSS drivers that 
simply hung the machine after restore. With this driver, the sound 
restores and works OK with xine, xmms and KDE sounds.

However, as I understand it, ALSA is considered better sound and more 
features, so an ALSA solution for the apm suspend/resumce problem with 
the T21 would also be nice.


Best regards,   Ted



D. Sen wrote:
> Anyonelse experience audio playback on the TP30 after an APM 
> suspend/resume cycle? Typically, the speed/rate at which the audio is 
> played back is higher than what it should be. This is especially 
> conspicuous for lower sampling rates (8 kHz speech for instance).