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Ângelo Miguel Arrifano wrote: |
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> Hello everybody, |
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> With the introduction of windows Vista, most of "Vista ready" laptops |
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> comes with Vista Hotstart(TM) technology support. |
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> You can read more about this: |
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> http://www.vistabase.co.uk/kb/performance/what-is-windows-hotstart |
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> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/hotstart.mspx |
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> Since Microsoft is making a lot of propaganda about this feature on Vista and |
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> I own a HP dv6535ep laptop that supports it, I wrote a Linux driver and opened |
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> a SF.net project to support these devices under linux. |
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> The project is here: http://quickstart.sourceforge.net |
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> With this driver and a simple init script its possible to launch applications |
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> at boot time by pressing a hotkey while the laptop is either turned off |
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> or in memory suspend. |
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> With this email I'm proposing getting the driver into portage and creating a |
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> Gentoo doc for this matter. I think people using Gentoo on Hotstart supported |
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> devices could potentially benefit of this feature. Plus, the kernel driver is |
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> very simple and looks stable in the last months. |
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I have dell inspiron 6400 with gentoo linux. Does my notebook support |
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this tehnology ? |
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С уважением, Vasiliy G Tolstov |
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