[Fedora-livecd-list] Laptop options for Live-CD

[Keith Roberts]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> To: Keith Roberts <keith at karsites.net>, fedora-livecd-list at redhat.com
> From: Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Laptop options for Live-CD
> 
> On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 14:24 +0000, Keith Roberts wrote:
>> I'm not a builder myself atm, but would it be possible for
>> the Live-CD not use power management on laptops? Or at least
>> give the user an option of disabling that when booting from
>> a laptop machine? Reason being is that my mouse jumps all
>> over the place when some sort of Power Saving happens.
>
> If there's a kernel option for disabling it, you can pass it to the
> kernel when booting from isolinux.
>
> But in general, it's not something that we want to be disabling -- it's
> far better to get to the root of the problem and fix that instead
>
> Jeremy

I did not know it was possible to pass kernel options to the 
Live-CD? AFAIR the CD just boots into Linux without offering 
me the option to set parameters.

Regards

Keith