TuxOnIce

[IRCer]

I have a Sony Vaio Laptop with an nVidia GeForce 8600M GT card, and hibernate rarely works, so I wanna try TuxOnIce as I heard it works much better. Has anyone tried this?

It's not included in the repositories, and the HowTo says I need to compile the kernel. Is there anyway I can do it with the kernel I have? (2.6.25.4-10.fc8) so I can install TuxOnIce easily?

[thunderogg]

I have a Sony Vaio Laptop with an nVidia GeForce 8600M GT card, and hibernate rarely works, so I wanna try TuxOnIce as I heard it works much better. Has anyone tried this?

It's not included in the repositories, and the HowTo says I need to compile the kernel. Is there anyway I can do it with the kernel I have? (2.6.25.4-10.fc8) so I can install TuxOnIce easily?

Why don't you install F9 instead? It boots, and powers off much quicker. The difference between booting from hibernate and normal boot isn't that long. Then the Nvida driver works much better, and suspend to RAM works 100% for me, maybe hibernate too. Didn't try it. There is also the fact that F9 remembers the power saving state of the harddrive using the new version of pm-utils. This way you only have to set hdparm sometime during boot. Fedora is the first distro trying to take care of your harddisk. Well, with the notebook I have at least, F9 is just super! It works so much better than F8! :)

Oh, and I think I read that the pm-utils used in F9 is prepared for use with TuxOnIce.

[IRCer]

Well, the reason to use hibernate is so that I can have all the windows as it was as I left it when I was working. It's not about saving time when booting. It might sound silly but coming from a Windows world, it's what I'm used to.

I will give F9 a try in a virtual machine and see if tux on ice works on it, and if it does then I'll remove F8 and install F9.

[thunderogg]

I see. When came from the Windows world, the rule was to reboot as often as possible. :) Maybe Windows got better.

[IRCer]

I never liked rebooting, and because of that, I rarely used to update my Windows box because every update required a reboot. Thats one thing I loved when I switched to Linux. Sure there are updates once in a while that require a reboot, but not as often as Windows. :)