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From: Xamindar <junkxamindar@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hibernation and various programs.
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:13:06
Message-Id: 45774D57.1010402@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] hibernation and various programs. by Michael Crute
1 Michael Crute wrote:
2 > On 12/6/06, Xamindar <junkxamindar@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> I have hibernation set up on my laptop and am just wondering if there
4 >> are any programs that are unsafe to have running when hibernating. One
5 >> of the main ones im wondering about would be vmware. Can I hibernate
6 >> while I have windows xp running in vmware and still have it exactly how
7 >> I left it when I power back on? I will probably try it soon anyway but
8 >> just wondering if anyone else out there has more experience.
9 >>
10 >> Also, I notice that my cpu governors and being able to change the clock
11 >> speed of the cpu no longer function once I resume from suspend.
12 >>
13 >> One other thing is that any programs that use the sound device are
14 >> killed when I hibernate (because hibernate is set to restart alsasound
15 >> or else sound doesn't work any more)....any way to stop that from
16 >> happening?
17 >
18 > I have had problems with Firefox 2 crashing every time I resume, it
19 > spouts some nonsense about gnome-vfs and dies. I have also on occasion
20 > not been able to enter my password into xscreensaver after a reboot,
21 > for that Ctrl+Alt+F1 and login then kill xscreensaver works without
22 > harming anything else. HTH.
23 >
24 > -Mike
25 >
26 Yeah, I have those same problems. I noticed though that xscreensaver
27 runs extremely slow on resume and I can't enter a password. If I wait
28 sometimes it recovers but most of the time just do what you do and kill it.
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