Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:54:16 -0400 | From | Andrew Buehler <> | Subject | Thanks and congratulations for improved support |
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When I first got my current laptop and installed Linux on it - somewhere between one and two years ago - there were a number of less than ideal behaviors, which seem in hindsight to have potentially been kernel-related. Wireless connections would bounce up and down at random intervals (sometimes as little as a few seconds apart), suspending even to RAM would take 15-45 seconds freezing processes and then another 10-15 suspending consoles, and connecting or unplugging a USB device during the process of suspending would abort the suspend - this last, apparently, because a new process was triggered which would not freeze.
I found workarounds for the wireless problems, got used to the suspend slowness, and took an "if it hurts to do that, don't do that" approach to the USB disconnect-while-suspending problem - and I kept going, upgrading my kernel and various other software on a fairly regular basis. After a while, I noticed that the time needed to suspend had gone down; another while later, I noticed that my "stand on one leg and whistle 'I Am My Own Grandpa' backwards" wireless workaround script wasn't necessary anymore.
By now, suspending to RAM takes five seconds or less most of the time - and just this past evening (coincidentally enough, not long after having rebooted into kernel 3.0.0), I accidentally unplugged a USB mouse while suspending, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the suspend did not abort but completed without problems. As of this moment, as far as I know, all of the various problems I've had with this laptop under Linux are gone.
So I just wanted to take a moment to say: thank you for the fixes, congratulations on the improvements, and keep up the good work!
-- Andrew J. Buehler
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