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

From: pZa1x
Date: Tue Dec 23 2003 - 12:41:38 EST


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,


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