>When I used to use a Thinking Mouse from Kensington, after I slept and woke
>up the PowerBook, I lost a lot of speed and the mouse didn't behave 100%. I
>dabbled a bit with it after 8.6 and those symptoms no longer occurred.
That's interesting. That might occur if the physical bus and devices
on it were all being reset (I think the Power Manager chip does this
at wake time), but the third-party ADB device drivers in the queue
weren't being told about the change (by the OS software). I never had
a problem with sleep-swapping (or with 15 years of occasional
hot-swapping on desktops for that matter), but I also probably never
tried it with a device that needed a third-party driver installed. If
the addition in 8.6 is to go through and call all the ADB drivers'
init routines, that might explain the difference you describe. This
is basically a question of hardware/software integration. You can
reset the ADB bus any time with a number of freeware utilities, of
course, though it's a minor hassle to do that every time you wake the
computer (I imagine this is probably just what you did before 8.6).
Again, it might also relate to the fact that the Powerbooks being
sold around that time finally began to officially support
hot-swapping. The hardware change was just an extremely minor
addition (as little as a single well-placed resistor, I think), and
any software change to better support it would probably have come
along a little later (the developer note that mentions Wallstreet ADB
hotswaps is dated 5/6/98). The main reason I can see for them making
a change to the wake process is that sleep-swapping was always a grey
area, but once hot-swapping was supported sleep-swapping obviously
was too, so it suddenly needed to become foolproof instead of merely
"99% likely to succeed". ;) Though it's interesting that this
difference in the two G3 powerbooks that have ADB no longer seems to
be mentioned at the Apple TIL (you know how Apple shies away from the
least possibility of confusion or mishap in those TIL articles, to
the point of making them near-useless sometimes).
So that's one more benefit of using 8.5+ for earlier Powerbooks like
the 2400; smoother sleep-swapping (even if not officially supported,
wink wink). I'd suggest the same thing others have to the original
poster - a few seconds of wake-up time really isn't worth sacrificing
8.6 for and going back to 8.1 on the 2400. If my loose theory above
is correct, you may even be able to cut the time down by looking
through your Extensions folder and making sure there aren't any ADB
drivers there for devices you don't use (joysticks et al).
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