[ltp] kubuntu breezy on a22p

[Harry Mangalam]

On Tuesday 27 September 2005 07:51 pm, Richard Neill wrote:
> Harry Mangalam wrote:

> > To my leery astonishment, just about everything works.  Suspend on ACPI
> > works (1st time ACPI has EVER done anything except lock the system),
> > altho it uses scads of power (1/4 of power gone in 2 hours - useless
> > except for short transports to home - my usual usage).  But HIBERNATE
> > also works out of the box - just adjusted the settings on the KDE control
> > panel and it hibernates (!). First time I've EVER seen that.  And more
> > amazing, it comes back from that misty place of dreams with everything
> > intact (tho it takes a while to restore from disk).
>
> I'm impressed. My A22p only works with apm, and even apm-suspend is
> sometimes slightly flaky. If you get 25 successful consecutive ACPI
> suspend-resume cycles without a crash, do let me know!

Will do.  I believe you're right about the hibernate.  once activated (by 
closing the cover), the disk works furiously for a bit (Writing 512M of RAM 
to the swap space) and then it turns itself off.  When you open the lid, it 
doesn't automatically turn itself on, but when you hit power, it goes thru an 
accelerated boot process which restores the saved state from RAM.  There were 
a tense few moments when the display was horribly messed up, but after a few 
more momnets, that too settled and everything but the network was restored (I 
had moved it to home so the network configs wouldn't have worked anyway).

Impressive.

> Incidentally, I'm guessing that hibernate here is the Linux "suspend2"
> system, which is performed entirely in software and without the BIOS.
>
> Slightly OT:
> I did try a Kubuntu install this weekend, but I had to give up on it. In
> this case, it was on a Mini-Itx box with a 1GB Compact Flash card as the
> hard disk. Sadly, Ubuntu tried to install too-much by default, and
> crashed out with disk-full before I could intervene to get a minimal
> system.  Mandriva at least fits, although it has some stupid
> dependencies (eg why must I have mDNSresponder and foomatic installed
> just to keep rpmdrake? And why must I have CUPS installed in order to
> get KDE?). Surely one should be able to fit the following into 1GB:
>     Kernel + Base System + X (not broken!) + SSH
>     Emacs. KDE (minimal). Xscreensaver. Firefox (+Java,Flash).
>     VLC. Mplayer. Appropriate codecs. XMMS. Amarok. MythTV-frontend.

It's been a while since I tried to find a tiny Linux, but I seem to remember 
Damn Small Linux was just that.  I think tho that KDE was not possible on the 
installation disk (bootable bizcard), but it could be installed later, tho 
this would be a nightmare.
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Cheers, Harry
Harry J Mangalam - 949 856 2847 (vox; email for fax) - hjm@tacgi.com 
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