On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:33:14PM +0200, Tako Schotanus wrote: > Axel Thimm wrote: > >On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 12:51:00PM +0200, Tako Schotanus wrote: > >>Just wondered who I have to bribe^H^H^H^H^Hconvince to get NTFS and > >>Software Suspend included in the ATrpms repo? :-) > >> > >>In fact NTFS is not much of a problem because the site delivers a large > >>amount of precompiled rpms for all(?) the official kernels but being > >>able to just install it with a simpel apt-get/smart install command > >>would be great. > >> > >>The software suspend (http://mhensler.de/swsusp/index_en.php) is what > >>gives me the most "problems", I'm running FC3 on a laptop and the > >>suspend to ram works but I really want suspend to disk. Software Suspend > >>seems to have what it takes and they have a lot of ready-tu-use kernels > >>but of course the moment I install one of those I lose all ATrpms > >>goodness (like the nvidia kernel modules). > >> > >>So.... any chance that any of this might be included some time? > >>And if so, is there any help that I could give to make it happen (sooner)? > > > >ntfs may be supported soon, it's quite easy to add the kmdls. software > >suspend is a different beast. It requires a separate kernel (not a > >kmdl) and last time I tried (1-2 years?) it was just eating my > >PC. > > > >I wouldn't mind a special myth kernel as Mark suggested that would > >have such features in. But I think it will be quite an effort to work > >on this.
> Ok, it has been a while but in the last couple of days I've been trying > out Matthias Hensler's kernels that include software suspend > (http://mhensler.de/swsusp/index_en.php) and they work perfectly for me. > > So... maybe I could convince you to take another look at software > suspend support for the AT kernel? :-D > > The information on the site is quite extensive and there are all kinds > of ready-to-install rpms and such so hopefully it wouldn't be too much > work for you to include it into ATrpms. Well, "jam with the best", I Cced Matthias, maybe he would be interested in maintaining kernel and other related patched packages within ATrpms. I think that would be the best configuration. Matthias, would that be something you'd like to do? -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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