Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932613AbVJCS7Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:59:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932610AbVJCS7Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:59:25 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:51204 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932613AbVJCS7Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:59:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 20:59:23 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andrew Haninger Cc: lokum spand , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: A possible idea for Linux: Save running programs to disk Message-ID: <20051003185923.GG3652@stusta.de> References: <105c793f0510012236j16033efbh400f6f2a8495d03e@mail.gmail.com> <20051003174122.GD3652@stusta.de> <105c793f0510031152v76225bc7r83e5e2170f3434d5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <105c793f0510031152v76225bc7r83e5e2170f3434d5@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1718 Lines: 43 On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 02:52:52PM -0400, Andrew Haninger wrote: > On 10/3/05, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Where are hardware issues with suspend to disk? > > > Actually, very few currently [AFAIK, on my hardware]. However, at > least in the past, my r200 card wasn't useable after resume from > suspend without patches to XFree86. I know people had trouble with the > fglrx drivers not supporting suspend-to-disk. [I believe current r300 > drivers work fine, but I do not have personal confirmation.] I have a > machine that used to have issues because I was using a keyboard and no > mouse. When I resumed, the keyboard didn't work. If I had a mouse > plugged in, suspend/resume worked fine. Here's a link to my mail to > LKML about this issue: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112139506118959&w=2 > > As new hardware is introduced and drivers have to be written or > reverse-engineered and kinks worked out, bugs like these will crop up > again and again. [That is, unless manufacturers become more open about > their hardware. From my perspective, they are becoming more closed. > ATI, for example.] >... These are all software problems, not hardware problems. > Neat. > > -Andy cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/