Re: Activity!

Hi again, Hmmm... tuxoniceui_text works for me with latests git-head. 
And hibernation/resume works too, but tested only few times.

Milan



On 12/16/2011 10:39 AM, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On 16/12/11 20:26, Harald Judt wrote:
>> Am 16.12.2011 06:15, schrieb Nigel Cunningham:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> On 15/12/11 09:23, Harald Judt wrote:
>>>> Here are some drawbacks of tuxonice:
>>>>
>>>> * Cannot apply Con Koliva's bfs patch, they break compression. This
>>>> really sucks. I've applied bfs and bfq patches to mainline head, and
>>>> they are quite an improvement, especially on the laptop. The only
>>>> solution would be to not use image compression which is not an option.
>>>
>>> I'll see what I can do about that.
>>
>> For your convenience, I've already gathered the following information:
>>
>> It seems the following commit which causes the problem:
>> c2a116d1236344e6ce2556bbc674489ee5d2f703: Start/stop I/O worker threads
>> outside of freezer
>>
>> However, without it I think tuxonice doesn't work reliably.
>
> Yeah - I'm not going to revert that change at this stage - I don't see
> anything wrong with it itself.
>
>> I've adapted BFS-0.415 to compile with 3.2-rc5, there was just a small
>> change necessary because some variable was not used anymore, which
>> causes a compilation error. I'll attach it as a bzip and hope the mail
>> gets through. Alternatively, you can find the original patch for 3.1
>> here: http://ck-hack.blogspot.com. Older kernels with the patch applied
>> show the same problem.
>
> Thanks.
>
>>>> * Laptop special keys (thinkvantage button, fn keys) stopped working
>>>> after hibernating and resuming (lenovo t400). They work fine with
>>>> in-kernel suspend, in fact they start working again when suspending (not
>>>> hibernating) and resuming. (Could have been fixed by newer kernel, not a
>>>> tuxonice issue? On the other hand there have been no changes to the
>>>> module for quite some time IIRC.)
>>>
>>> Does current git do that? It sounds like I'm not doing something I
>>> should be doing, or doing it in the wrong order.
>>
>> I don't know, I have not tested current git yet, but I'll let you know.
>>
>>>> Advantages of tuxonice:
>> [...]
>>>> * Nice progress display.
>>>
>>> Broken for me at the moment - another thing to look at :)
>>
>> Would be great if you can get it working again. Especially because it
>> boasts another feature I was just reminded of which vanilla doesn't
>> have: You can abort snapshotting ;-)
>
> I think you can probably still abort - I pressed 'R' earlier in the day
> and it did reboot. There's just nothing to see.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nigel
>