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Date:      Tue, 28 Apr 1998 09:50:13 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        rob@remarque.org (Rob Robertson)
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: weird sound problem with tp 560 
Message-ID:  <199804281650.JAA00551@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:48:14 PDT." <199804281748.KAA22993@remarque.org> 

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>     > > is it a software or firmware/hardware problem?  anyone know what's up
>     > > with that?   
>     > 
>     > Probably a software problem.  I don't believe the sound code is APM
>     > aware, so it won't re-configure itself upon resume.
>     
>     That's correct.  I've discussed this with our current lead sound 
>     developer, but he's not laptop-enabled so things have been slow.
> 
> my question then is:  why does hibernate do the right thing, but
> suspend doesn't? 

Hibernation doesn't lose the state of the DMA/sound hardware, it just 
pauses it.  After a suspend/resume cycle, you have to reinitialise the 
hardware and restart the DMA, and our code doesn't do that.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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