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has anyone tried usign the 2.6 kernel on a laptop yet? I read somewhere that 2.6 has massive improvements to ACPI usage to allow better support of laptop power managment and hibernation abilities?

Chris

I have it installed on my Compaq Armada E500.

did it enable hibernation?

I don't know, how do I tell? :)

wrap it up in newspaper and put it in a box and see if it goes to sleep.

actually it's probably not the right time of year for it.

Heh heh, leave it to Calum. :) Well I just upgraded to 2.6.5-1.309:

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/kernel.list:

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# Arjan's 2.6 series kernel repository
rpm http://people.redhat.com arjanv/2.5 kernel
rpm-src http://people.redhat.com arjanv/2.5 kernel


# apt-get update
# apt-get install kernel#2.6.5-1.309

I don't think the kernel I have installed has hibernation compiled in and enabled but it does have some neat information under /proc/acpi. I don't freally have time to build one from source at the moment.

just went to kernel.org to see what info they have on ACPI improvments with 2.6 but not finding what changes were made. Can anyone suggest other places to go to see if the 2.6 kernel has th ACPI improvments i need in it? This will be my first time at compiling a new kernel and I want to make sure it has what i need before i risk killing my system

Chris