Re: [gpm] Followup: Are there certain devices / old drivers which are known to always have problems resuming from suspend?

["Richard Hughes" <hughsient gmail com>]

On 20/08/07, Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4 gmail com> wrote:
> 2007/7/31, Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4 gmail com> wrote:
> > Are there certain things which are known to always have problems
> > resuming from suspend?  (e.g. certain hardware devices, or certain old
> > drivers, or certain combinations of the two)  If so, could
> > gnome-power-manager ship with a list of such things?  Then, g-p-m
> > could set all the power preferences to "never suspend" when you first
> > start up Gnome on an affected PC.
>
> Better yet, Gnome should never suspend or hibernate a user's PC for
> the first time unless they have no apps running.

Why? If an application fails to resume then we fix it.

> Then, Gnome should
> check if we resume successfully including resumption of Wi-Fi.  If
> there was any problem, Gnome should set the suspend-after-X-minutes
> and suspend-on-lid-close options to "no".

No, lots of laptops melt if they don't suspend on lid close.

> Good idea?  Bad idea?  Should I file a wishlist bug with all the above
> plus more refinement ideas I wrote in my PalmPilot's to-do list?

You have to bear in mind that we are in control of the software stack.
If something fails to resume (wifi for instance) someone can write a
patch and fix it.

Richard.