Laptops and 2.6.0 - momentum? (was Re: 2.6.0 release + ALSA + suspend = not work)

[pZa1x <pZa1x@rogers.com>]

Well, I'm volunteering time to do testing on my notebook for 2.6.0. I 
wonder if there is anyway to generate some momentum for it? If the aim 
is enterprise, doesn't enterprise use thousands of notebooks? I got mine 
refurbished from some large business. There are many organizations that 
collect thousands of old notebooks used by businesses, refurbish them 
and re-sell them. It's a great way of acquiring a durable, light 
business-class notebook at bargain prices.

This is a great target for Linux especially as it runs fine (even with 
the infamous Gnome) on my 700Mhz T20 Thinkpad. ie. a multi-gigahertz 
system seems a complete waste of money and a risk re weight and build 
quality.

I couldn't code a hello world to save my life but I can test patches and 
collect data. Currently, I am running 2.4.22 on my notebook because on 
2.6.0:

(a) suspend kills ALSA and ALSA mut be restarted
(b) suspend fails to function if yenta_socket (PCMCIA services) is running


Karol Kozimor wrote:
> Thus wrote pZa1x:
> 
>>ALSA stops producing sound after any time I suspend my Thinkpad T20 
>>notebook. I am using 2.6.0 release and the snd-cs46xx driver.
>>
>>I have to log out of Gnome and remove the sound card module and re 
>>modprobe it then restart Gnome to get sound back.
>>
>>No problems with 2.4.20 with OSS drivers.
> 
> 
> I have a similar problem here (ICH3M, CS4299, snd-intel8x0). In my case,
> using OSS emulation in userspace and ALSA modules in kernel works fine, so
> it must be a locking problem of some kind, anyway probably something
> trivial to fix.
> A similar problem occurs under 2.4, FYI.
> Best regards,
>