Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> > the sound card is a yamaha YMF-744B. i hadn't been
> > compiling with sound support (i dont care about sound
> > on my laptop), but when i got 2.4.2 i decided to try,
> > and now i'm pretty sure that was the problem.
>
> The Yamaha sound driver doesnt handle the case where the bios fails
> to restore the chip status and expects a windows driver to do its
> dirty work. That requires on resume that the device is completely
> reloaded.
>
> A workaround is to make it a module, unload it before suspend and
> reload it after resume but thats pretty umm uggly.
Why not use kernel/pm.c:pm_register? Then you can either refuse
suspend or have a proper workaround.
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