Re: Post-halloween doc updates.

[Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com>]

On 11/01/03 00:03, Ian Soboroff wrote:
> Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> writes:
> 
> 
>>On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:06:31AM -0500, Ian Soboroff wrote:
>>
>>>And APM suspend seems to have broken in -test8.  Does it work for
>>>anyone?
>>
>>Doesn't work for me.

APM working here nicely with -test9 on Thinkpad A31. Stilling getting
1394 badness when suspending/resuming with my cardbus 1394 controller
plugged in. Other than that, works pretty seamlessy with no cardbus
cards plugged.

Even radeon with VESA suspend/resume, DRI and X 4.3 (using some
precarious vtswitch calls in /etc/apm/event.d/). wlan-ng works okay
although it requires rmmod/modprobe to wake up properly after resume.

>>Now, taking off my "open source co-operative hat" and placing my
>>"reality" hat on, I'd suggest that anyone who finds that APM doesn't
>>work to consider it a dead loss - It's an obsolete technology, and
>>therefore no one is interested in it anymore.  I've reported the
>>problem multiple times here and there's been very little, if any,
>>reaction, so this seems to back that up.

Hmmm, well for me; a working APM (here) is much prefered to non-
working ACPI suspend/resume. I'd prefer not to obsolete APM until
there is a working alternative (with mature userspace tools).

~mc