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.
--
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
"Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of
starvation too, o'course."
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
