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On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:58:58 +0300 |
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Vasiliy G Tolstov <v.tolstov@××××××.ru> wrote: |
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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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> http://www.selfip.ru |
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If you have your disassembled dsdt acpi table at hand, just grep it for PNP0C32. If |
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PNP0C32 is referenced then yes, it should support. |
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Anyway, you can always build the kernel module and load it. It won't harm your laptop |
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in case it's not supported. |
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Have a look at the project page for more information: http://quickstart.sourceforge.net |
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Thanks, |
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Angelo Arrifano AKA MiKNiX |
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CSE Student at UBI, Portugal |
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Gentoo Linux AMD64 Arch Tester |
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miknix@×××××.com |
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http://miknix.homelinux.com |
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