Chris H Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 So what gives with the laptop kernel? What benefits should it provide against the standard kernel? Should I change to it? Will this kernel maybe help with getting suspend/resume working? It works fine on my laptop with Ubuntu once I've tinkered with the acpi-support file but I've never got it working with any non-debian based distro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Batson Posted November 4, 2008 Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 From the Mandriva 2009.0 Release Notes... The kernel-laptop flavor of the official kernel no longer exists in Mandriva Linux 2009. It had few remaining customizations as compared to the kernel-desktop flavor. Some of these were now irrelevant and have been removed; the others were now safe to add to the kernel-desktop flavor (and will benefit desktop users in terms of increased power efficiency). So the kernel-desktop flavor is now as efficient for laptops as kernel-laptop previously was, and will be used on all desktop and laptop systems. FWIW, I have been using the Desktop Kernel with Mandriva 2007.1 and 2008.1, and I have Suspend to RAM and Hibernate to Disk working fine. It did take some trial and error as well as research, to get it all working though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris H Posted November 4, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2008 Thanks for the info David, appreciated Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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