Author: Nigel Cunningham Date: To: Kenneth Crudup CC: tuxonice-devel Subject: Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] Coming back to TOI after using
pm-hibernatefor a while
Hi.
On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 19:30 -0700, Kenneth Crudup wrote: > > Had to go back to "swsusp", folks- there's some interaction between ToI
> > and presumably the NVidia kernel module and/or the IEEE1394 stuff that
> > I've spent enough time working thru and had to give up so's I can get
> > back to work.
>
> I'm back! Had a little time to work on what the issues were, namely:
>
> - The 2nd time after using ToI, either the gnome-panel-applet or the
> gnome-screensaver would take *forever* to dim the screen and begin
> the hibernation cycle, with 100% CPU in Xorg, probably caused by it
> using a funky method to dim the screen. I solved that by ditching
> the gnome-screensaver and going with xscreensaver instead.
>
> - The hangs on resume in "Cleaning Up" were related to the IEEE1394
> driver after all it appears. Switching to the 1394 alternate stack
> seems to have fixed that problem- and it's a better stack in every
> way except for the fact that it can't handle my Western Digital
> "My Book" drives, which spin down on idle. So for now, I'll hook
> those up via USB 'till the alternate stack authors (or me, if I
> get the time) fix that up (it just needs to spit a "spin up" command
> if it gets a "drive not ready" or "powered down" reply back).
>
> So far, so good. It's nice to not need *three* full minutes to resume
> my 4GB of RAM!
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