-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James wrote: | On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 23:39, Florent BERANGER wrote: | |>Le Jeudi 29 Ao�t 2002 15:26, Guillaume Rousse a �crit : |> |>>Le Jeudi 29 Ao�t 2002 15:00, Florent BERANGER a �crit : |>> |>>>A kernel without desktop modules -> faster start. |>> |>>What do you call desktop modules ? those corresponding |> |>to hardware which |> |>>isunlikely to be found on laptops ? |> |>yes | | | I don't know about excluding modules, but I for one would be thrilled to | see a mandrake kernel patched with the current ACPI stuff, or a working | version of acpi or something. Likewise, I heard rumours some time ago of | a patch for the kernel that modified the disk-cache flushing algorithm | to extend battery life on laptops. There's also the soft-suspend patch | which would be great. | | |>ok. In fact, I find the start too long and I try to find |>ways to make it start faster (I don't have many services |>at startup). | | | do you have a dhcp timeout specified? | | one thing that would help boot up times (as I understand it) would be a | move to dependency based init scipts - that way stuff could start in | parallel which (theoretically) improves boot times. | | Just my 2c. | | James. |
I'm currently working on modifying the latest ACPI patch for the 2.4.19 kernel to work on mandrake 2.4.19-8mdk kernel. I have no clue if my mod will work, but I'll post it if it does (I'm about 3 hours in now and I see a lot of inconsitencies in the variable names for the ACPI machine width). I think providing a kernel with ACPI support (or at least patching it in disabled by default) would be a huge plus for any of the modern laptop users. Running without any power management makes my machine very, very, very hot and it gets less than a quarter battery life even after modifying the hard disk spindown times. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj14JFYACgkQUMkt1ZRwL1P/EwCgrD14/+gE2sIARbGMFBn6o7ig cb0AnRJZCE79NBzcy6v3k0SAMlcP9UBp =ujHY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
