Re: A possible idea for Linux: Save running programs to disk

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 02:52:52PM -0400, Andrew Haninger wrote:
> On 10/3/05, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> 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

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