"Citizen Ted" wrote in message
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On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 19:50:22 -0500, "Robert Morein"
wrote:


That is not an answer, Arny. You don't know the answer.

He doesn't.

You're talking out of the back of your neck. You can't know what I do and
don't know without reading my mind. Given the years and years of bad blood
between Robert and I, I could have easily been giving him short shrift. I
know from years and years of bad experience that Robert makes a habit out of
biting any hand that tries to help him. In fact I gave him the short version
of what you provide below, except I failed to make an error that you made by
being overly general.

But I do.

It turns out you screwed up by being overly general. But that's not fatal -
at least you gave it a try, and most of your advice is perfect.

When you come out of hibernate, the OS will gladly recognize external
devices that it supports natively. External devices that require 3rd
party drivers won't magikally re-appear. This hibernation return
problem is inherent in XP as well as OSX. There is no fix. Developers
can write the fanciest-shmanciest device drivers in all the world, and
they still "unplug" during hibernate.

That's essentially what Graham and I told Robert, before he started arguing
with us.

Except that there are external devices that require 3rd party drivers that
do re-appear without manual intervention. Just thinking about some that I
*know* work, I come up with a whole class of external third-party devices
that resume operation when the laptop comes out of hibernatiion -
USB-connected wireless network adaptors.

You have options.

The easy, reliable one is the third one.

You can use a MIDI device supported natively by your OS. (feh)
You can re-load the device each damn time.
You can turn off hibernate.


I would recommend #3. If you are recording in the field and have
absolutely no access to AC power, then get a better battery. If you
are recording at home, in a studio or in the field with AC power, turn
off hibernate.

If you read the OP, turning off hibernate was eliminated as a possibility.

At some point you will have to decide whether or not your laptop is
going to be your DAW. If so, turn off the sounds, bells and whistles,
turn off unnecessary services, remove the ****e software, clean out
your nonpresent devices, streamline your system performance and turn
OFF the hibernate function.

That is exactly conventional wisdom, and of course very good advice.