Axel Thimm wrote: > 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. Well, I guess that's between RedHat and my vendor. > 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. OK, thanks. I'll keep this in mind when I ask further questions about the software on my laptop. > 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. OK, I have booted the stock 2944 kernel. And my mouse remained non-functional, *BUT*, there were no messages logged about, which got me thinking again. After much gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair, I resynced the mouse with the wireless USB receiver, and lo and behold, it started working, and its worked again on every kernel I've booted it on. B^( I still don't know *why* the mouse lost sync with its receiver (it might still be related to the suspend2 kernel, I just don't know), but I've solved my problem. Thanks to everyone who offered up a positive suggestion. I look forward to continuing to use FC6 on this laptop (using whatever kernel provides me the most functionality). And I come out of this situation a little bit wiser. Now its on to figure out why I can't bring up the IEEE-802.11g wireless network connector reliably (ipw3945abg). B^) But, that is a topic for another email thread. (At least Fedora 7 seems to want wireless to always work!) -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org)
