On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:48:52PM -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > Any information as to why the cubbi_suspend2 kernels exist and why they > are necessary would be appreciated here. I assumed (probably > incorrectly) that they were used on most laptops. Image my surprise > last night to discover the are shunned by people here! They are used quite a lot, but since they are not the default on a Fedora CD they are not used by a majority of people around here. The people were more shunning on either a vendor calling a modified version of Fedora still Fedora (e.g. adding swsusp2, ipw3945 etc support requires the vendor to drop the Fedora trademark, even adding a single bit different than what the Fedora media gives you requires that), or on reporting possible bugs in something added outside of Fedora as bugs on the vanilla Fedora rpms. The purpose of the kernel-suspend2-...cubbi kernels is support for software suspend2. The vendor may be correct that it is needed for proper suspend/resume support, but otherwise that's all this kernel offers you in advance. So most importantly, you should be able to install/boot a Fedora kernel and will likely "only" lose the abbility to suspend and perhaps the wifi. But you'll be able to to test the USB mouse to know which way to go from here, e.g. continue reporting on Fedora resources as it will affect the vanilla Fedora kernel rpm, or report to the OEM. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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