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  From: Craig Markwardt <craigm@pcasun3.gsfc.nasa.gov>
  To  : Jont Allen <jba@research.att.com>
  Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:15:13 -0400 (EDT)

Re: apm daemon, suspend/resume

Jont--

I am forwarding your message to the apmd list so that other people can
discuss too.  Your suggestions are good.

To change virtual consoles, it seems that "chvt" is a good choice.
Unfortunately I don't think there is an easy way to remember how to
switch back to the X console upon resume.

To the apmd list--

I still recommend that we not enable these kinds of commands by
default, but we should definitely document them.

Craig

Jont Allen writes:
 > Craig Markwardt wrote:
 > > 
 > >  > Is there anyway, that you know, to have this triggered by the button
 > >  > that gets hit when you close the screen? Or by the Fn-F4 key (the
 > >  > default on the IBM560X?
 > > 
 > > APM events are generated and handled when you hit the hibernate button
 > > your laptop as well.  In fact, it should be handled the *same way* as
 > > when you do "apm -s".  They are both considered "user suspends."  Are
 > > you suggesting otherwise?
 > > 
 > > Craig
 > 
 > Craig,
 > 
 > Did you know, at least on some laptops, that the sound drivers
 > cannot take a suspend/resume cycle. This program can fixt this
 > problem. Specifically, if you use the mic input, it doesnt work
 > after suspend/resume, unless you say: soundoff,soundon.
 > 
 > Also some people have problems with X windows. This can, I expect
 > solve that problem. It would require a command that brings down
 > X and gives a virt console. Then on resume, it would need to do
 > alt-f7(or f8) to return to you X.
 > 
 > Do you happen to know how to do that?
 > 
 > Perhaps it would be nice to add a list of such problems that this
 > solution can fix, to the docs.
 > 
 > Jont
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