Improving the suspend quirks guessworking

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Wed Mar 26 06:33:52 PDT 2008


On Mittwoch, 26. März 2008, Victor Lowther wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 20:48 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > The by Matthew proposed solution wouldn't fix this problem.
>
> HAL as it currently stands cannot fix the problem.  The quirks database
> does not contain all the pertinent data.  The one quirk per system model
> database (which, as far as I can see, is what is currently implemented),
> only works when all systems of a given model have identical video
> hardware.  This is simply not the case for rather a large number of
> models.

This is why we have since a while also information about the primary video 
card. I started already to collect the related information if we get new 
reports to see if there is a pattern we can use for more generic matches, but 
this need some more reports and some time. 

Danny



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