Re: APM realy sucks on 2.6.x

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> >>Does this bug freeze the machine ? Or just block
> >>the outputting program ?
> >>
> >>PCM will be the next to look at...
> >
> >
> >Drop all non-important hw. That's everything but keyboard, VGA and
> >harddrive...
> >
>    Already did that and APM suspends/resumes fine. That gives
>   me hope to at least pinpoint the bad behaving module/driver....

Okay, then its easy. Find offending driver; removing its
suspend/resume routine should work it around for you.

Solving this properly will be slightly harder; it involves finding
what the driver did wrong. You might want to call the driver's
suspend/resume routine repeatedly without really suspending to see if
it breaks something.
								Pavel
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