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From: Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov@××××××.ru>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Add vista Hotstart Technology(TM) support on Gentoo.
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:02:24
Message-Id: 476B5622.1070103@selfip.ru
In Reply to: [gentoo-laptop] Add vista Hotstart Technology(TM) support on Gentoo. by "Ângelo Miguel Arrifano"
1 Ângelo Miguel Arrifano wrote:
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5 > Hello everybody,
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7 > With the introduction of windows Vista, most of "Vista ready" laptops
8 > comes with Vista Hotstart(TM) technology support.
9 >
10 > You can read more about this:
11 > http://www.vistabase.co.uk/kb/performance/what-is-windows-hotstart
12 > http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/hotstart.mspx
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14 > Since Microsoft is making a lot of propaganda about this feature on Vista and
15 > I own a HP dv6535ep laptop that supports it, I wrote a Linux driver and opened
16 > a SF.net project to support these devices under linux.
17 > The project is here: http://quickstart.sourceforge.net
18 >
19 > With this driver and a simple init script its possible to launch applications
20 > at boot time by pressing a hotkey while the laptop is either turned off
21 > or in memory suspend.
22 >
23 > With this email I'm proposing getting the driver into portage and creating a
24 > Gentoo doc for this matter. I think people using Gentoo on Hotstart supported
25 > devices could potentially benefit of this feature. Plus, the kernel driver is
26 > very simple and looks stable in the last months.
27 >
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29 I have dell inspiron 6400 with gentoo linux. Does my notebook support
30 this tehnology ?
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33 С уважением, Vasiliy G Tolstov
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Re: [gentoo-laptop] Add vista Hotstart Technology(TM) support on Gentoo. "Ângelo Miguel Arrifano" <miknix@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-laptop] Add vista Hotstart Technology(TM) support on Gentoo. "Ângelo Miguel Arrifano" <miknix@×××××.com>