Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message "."

[Iain Buchanan]

On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 18:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 February 2010 01:27:19 Iain Buchanan wrote:

> > I appreciate the humour, but so far for me, it's Just Worked(TM).  Even
> > with this log file annoyance, it's still "working".
>
> You're the lucky one :-)
>
> nm seems to work OK on the RedHats and SuSEs of this world, I've not seen many
> folk get it work smoothly on Gentoo

Wow, I must remember to buy a lottery ticket on the way home :)
Seriously, it was just emerge and go!

> > I found a post that suggested in fact iwlagn wasn't reloading properly
> > after a suspend, so I've added "UnloadModules iwlagn"
> > to /etc/hibernate/common.conf and so far I haven't seen the spurious log
> > messages (cross my fingers).
>
> Unfortunately, that sounds all too realistic. I gave up trying to use suspend
> some time ago after battling with wirelss and graphics hardware that wouldn't
> suspend/resume reliably. But with 4G of RAM here, I find it doesn't take much
> longer to power down/cold start than suspend/resume

really?  4G RAM, Core 2 Duo T9500 @ 2.60GHz here, and hibernate is much
faster.  Do you have an SSD?  Resuming with gnome, compiz, firefox, etc.
already loaded is supremely better than my boot up AND log-in time
otherwise.

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