Re: iBook2 doesn't resume properly after sleep

["Kevin B. McCarty" <kmccarty@Princeton.EDU>]

Charles R. Twardy wrote:

> I have also recently had a persistent problem resuming my iBook2 
> after sleep. The problem came with one of the upgrade to 2.6.8 and 
> has continued into 2.6.9. As reported by the previous people, the 
> system must be rebooted. Not only doesn't it resume X, but you cannot
> switch consoles. I haven't tested whether ethernet access is
> enabled.

> Before I file a bug report, does this info help anyone pin down WHERE
> the problem is? (Kernel? Udev? User? CPUfreq?) I'm not currently
> subscribed, but I'll check the web.


I remember this being something to do with HAL polling the IDE CD-ROM.
See http://bugs.debian.org/286820 .  To work around it, you can save the
following snippet as /etc/hal/fdi/local_disablecdrom.fdi (I guess you
can name it whatever you want as long as it goes into that directory).
This worked on my iBook G3:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
	<device>
		<match key="block.device" string="/dev/hdb">
			<merge key="storage.media_check_enabled" type="bool">false</merge>
		</match>
	</device>
</deviceinfo>


Hope this helps.  Would be nice if this bug was documented somewhere.

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