suspend/hibernate on desktops

[Rahul Sundaram]

Bojan Smojver wrote:

> You may find that patching your kernel with suspend2 
> (http://www.suspend2.net/) can give you much better results. The 
> software is being actively developed and works quite well on a number 
> of machines (as reported by people that are actually using it).
>
> With Rawhide kernel (2.6.15-1.1854_FC5), suspend2 2.2-rc16 will 
> require quite a bit of surgery to get it going, but the kernel from 
> FC5T2 should be a breeze to patch.
>
> For your reference:
>
> ftp://ftp.rexursive.com/pub/hp-ze4201/kernel-2.6.15-1.1854_FC5.1rxv.patch.bz2 
>
> ftp://ftp.rexursive.com/pub/hp-ze4201/kernel-2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5.1rxv.patch.bz2 
>
>
> Instructions (or close :-) on how to build patched kernel RPMS:
>
> http://www.rexursive.com/articles/linuxonhpze4201.html
>
> PS. If the above patches kill your box and eat your data, it's not 
> going to be my fault. They also change the SPEC file to build i686 UP 
> kernel only (which is what my notebook is).
>
Kernel's can be installed in parallel. So would this suitable for Fedora 
Extras?

-- 
Rahul 

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