[alsa-devel] Can't resume from suspend because firmware is not found ?!?

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:27:42 +0200,
Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:39:20 +0200
> Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> 
> > At Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:38:00 +0200,
> > Giuliano Pochini wrote:
> > > 
> > > I tested suspend/resume on a laptop because I failed to make it work on my
> > > G4 (grr!!). Suspend work, resume does not. From dmesg (below) it looks like
> > > the soundcard driver is asked to resume before the ATA driver, thus is
> > > cannot load the firmware. Am I overlooking something ?  Suggestions ?
> > 
> > You can't load the firmware file in resume phase because the system
> > isn't yet ready at this stage.  Either postpone it or keep the old
> > firmware and reuse it.
> 
> *sigh*
> Ok, I'll try to find a workaround. I don't want to keep the firmware in
> memory.

Is it so high volume?  This is the easiest solution in general.


Takashi