The Hibernation Blues: LineIn Mute, XM not playing

First off, I've been using MediaEngine for 2 year and appreciate all the hard work you guys put into the software. Being a programmer myself, I understand how much time you guys must have but into this.

Okay, know I have a couple comments:
1) When coming out of hibernation, line in is unmuted. So this means every time I come out of hibernation, I have to go to my XM radio then go back into my music (which mutes the line in). I don't think this was a problem with earlier releases.

2) When coming out of hibernation into the XM radio screen, the radio will not be playing right off the back. I have to press on a station before it will start playing. I'm using an XMPCR.

Would you be willing to test a build for me and report back if it's working correctly? I don't have a box I can test XM with and code on simultaneously.

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Originally Posted by XxAndyxX

1) When coming out of hibernation, line in is unmuted. So this means every time I come out of hibernation, I have to go to my XM radio then go back into my music (which mutes the line in). I don't think this was a problem with earlier releases.

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Actually what's happening is the receiver isn't being put back into 'standby' mode so you're still hearing whatever it was tuned to. I'll try to take a look at where this got broken. In the mean time you can set your line in to a muted state from window's mixer app and M/E should maintain that setting whenever you're not listening to XM.

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Originally Posted by XxAndyxX

2) When coming out of hibernation into the XM radio screen, the radio will not be playing right off the back. I have to press on a station before it will start playing. I'm using an XMPCR.

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Someone else has mentioned this - again I'll look into it. I'm currently trying to isolate a bug that prevents channel changes when the XM receiver 'goes to sleep' - it's the type of thing that's really hard to reproduce and even more difficult to debug, so it could be a while before I look at your issue.

Sure I'll test it, shoot me an email... andy.payne@okstate.edu

Oh, and I had another question unrelated to all of this:
The embedded GPS is a great feature of ME that makes it feel more "factory", but there's one problem... I'm using iGuidance and there is an ugly gray tool bar on top and bottom. I use the feature that makes it look a little better by taking away the title bar. Is there a way to manually adjust the resolution of the IG app? That way I can adjust the resolution of IG until ME totally covers up the gray areas. This would make ME flow together a lot better. I believe CentraFuse does this, not sure how though.

I almost forgot another big hibernation problem! The mouse doesn't hide after hibernation, and nothing gives away a stock feel with a mouse pointer going all over the screen :(.

There's no way to set the client (GPS) app to a specific size. Also, I've checked and double-checked the code that hides the pointer when resuming from suspend/hibernate. I'm not sure why it doesn't always work, but one easy way to fix it is to set your cursors to a transparent one in windows control panel (ELO installs an 'invisible' pointer with it's drivers, for example).