Last Rant deleted; more reasonable minds prevail

December 10, 2007 in Linux, News | No comments

I decided to delete the last rant about Ubuntu and its problems with suspend and most notably with resume. Its not like its fixed or that I believe after reading a few posts that I could believe it actually works. I have tried this supposed Howto to see how it goes. I don’t think I can just run Windows these days. There is something about it that’s well…

Inferior

At some level, it seems to just work but you really step down to a level of really not owning the solution (or even the problem; however, I think you really do own the problem but Microsoft wants to borrow it and then return it unfixed sometimes). I do have to say the few times I’ve called any “tech support pit” that I’ve been less than thrilled. I’ve implemented more than a few of them from the ground up and integrated services into them. Its difficult. There is a magical amount of reason, need, insanity, and alcoholic beverages required.

So, now I am trying yet another magical mix of ingredients including:

uswsusp - but not the uswsusp from Gutsy. I’m using one with s2ram in it instead which is packaged by Debian Lenny.

acpi-support - this package has a bewildering array of scripts and event handlers that I’m not sure even the developer understand. But, hey… They gotta know more about ACPI, right?

hal script hacking foo - I’ve hacked up the hal suspend and hibernate scripts a bit and removed all the guts and glory and only included calls to s2ram and s2disk for suspend and hibernate. We’ll see where that goes.

/etc/default/acpi-support - I changed things in this file per the Howto.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf - I changed things here too per the Howto.

Now, the test is does it make a difference? I’m inclined to bet it really doesn’t. So I’ll probably go the kernel compiling route next. I don’t really do kernels any more since I ran pure Debian.

The Gentoo non-way

Yes I tried the Gentoo way for fun and profit. None of either. Gnome will not compile, GTK wants the X11 included. Cairo is not happy either. This distribution seems a lot of work to me and I’m lazy. Everything on Gentoo takes “time”. Time to do this and that. I could get the later stage installer I guess; but that takes time too. Perhaps in the end I would have a better thing. I just get impatient. I did compile a kernel on it though. Woot!!