Thanks Maïa

Originally uploaded by otterwag.

Yes, thanks Maïa for taking this photo, looking at it from time to time makes me remember how calm and quiet she can be :-)

iBook doesn't wake up

From the very first day I installed Linux Ubuntu on my iBook, I've been having problems at resume time—iBook doesn't wake up, and no other choice than hitting the hard-reboot button!

Stopping and starting the HAL service, respectively, before suspend and after resume, as proposed here, improves things a bit but doesn't make the problem disappear.

Modifying the storage HAL config, as proposed here, improves things a bit further—gnome-battery-monitor does no longer crash every time the laptop goes to sleep. But still, that doesn't solve the problem, resume fails from time to time. And everyone knows how painful from time to time can be!

To me, the HAL stuff is one problem, but there seems to be another, kernel-related, problem. See Bugzilla Bug 1940. Applying that kernel patch turns out as a real success in my case.

I haven't experienced any resume problem over the last 10 days—since Johane was born. Gosh! That may be just her :-)