Trouble with software suspend

[Rich]

Andrea Gelmini wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:45:13PM -0400, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>> Andrea--
>>
>> I believe that when Amarok is open, the engine that it loads has your sound 
>> card open all the time, even if it's not currently playing a file (other 
> yes, that's right, and I would say it is something like a bug...
> 
>> players and applications do this, so I would imagine Xine under Amarok 
>> behaves the same way).  Can you modify your hibernate script to shut down 
>> Amarok before attempting to remove the module?
> of course, now I use
> "dcop amarok MainApplication-Interface quit"
> but I'm looking for a way to avoid to close it.

the "correct" way to solve this would be fixing sound card driver so 
that it can survive suspend/resume cycle...
have you reported the problem (either to kernel.org people or your 
distribution) ?
have you checked that this problem is not resolved in a later kernel 
version ?

> thanks,
> Andrea
-- 
  Rich