gnome mixer applet and suspend/resume.

[Tim Gardner]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 01:46:57PM +0200, Nick Barcet wrote:
>> Tim Gardner wrote:
>>> mdz has suggested that I distribute this to a wider audience.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 01:30:15PM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
>>>> On platforms where the sound module must be removed prior to suspend or
>>>> hibernate, is there an elegant way to stop the Gnome mixer applet? If
>>>> you killall prior to suspending, upon resume Gnome pops up an annoying
>>>> dialog and asks if you want to restart the mixer applet. I would like to
>>>> be able to stash the state of the mixer applet, stop it,
>>>> suspend/hibernate, resume, and finally restart the mixer applet.
>>>>
>>>> Suggestions appreciated.
>> I do not know how to fix the mixer itself, but you might want to use
>> custom suspend/resume script as the acpi architecture allows for.
>>
>> In /etc/acpi/suspend.d add an executable script that stops the mixer
>> (killall mixer_applet2 should do the trick), and add a pending script in
>> /etc/acpi/resume.d to restart it.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
> 
> Tim wasn't having trouble running commands on suspend and resume events.
> The problem is that randomly killing applets creates a bad experience for
> the user (they are prompted with a dialog to restart the applet).  See
> above.
> 

Indeed, what I am trying to do is lessen the impact of an ugly Dell
specific workaround due to a sound driver deficiency. I know, its better
to fix the driver, but that fix has so far been elusive.

-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at ubuntu.com