Laptop options for Live-CD

[Keith Roberts]

I'm not a builder myself atm, but would it be possible for 
the Live-CD not use power management on laptops? Or at least 
give the user an option of disabling that when booting from 
a laptop machine? Reason being is that my mouse jumps all 
over the place when some sort of Power Saving happens.

Regards

Keith Roberts

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[Jeremy Katz]

On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 14:24 +0000, Keith Roberts wrote:
>  I'm not a builder myself atm, but would it be possible for 
>  the Live-CD not use power management on laptops? Or at least 
>  give the user an option of disabling that when booting from 
>  a laptop machine? Reason being is that my mouse jumps all 
>  over the place when some sort of Power Saving happens. 
If there's a kernel option for disabling it, you can pass it to the
kernel when booting from isolinux.

But in general, it's not something that we want to be disabling -- it's
far better to get to the root of the problem and fix that instead

Jeremy

[Keith Roberts]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Jeremy Katz wrote:

>  To: Keith Roberts <keith(a)karsites.net&gt;,
> fedora-livecd-list(a)redhat.com
>  From: Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Laptop options for Live-CD
>  
>  On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 14:24 +0000, Keith Roberts wrote:
> > I'm not a builder myself atm, but would it be possible for
> > the Live-CD not use power management on laptops? Or at least
> > give the user an option of disabling that when booting from
> > a laptop machine? Reason being is that my mouse jumps all
> > over the place when some sort of Power Saving happens.
>
>  If there's a kernel option for disabling it, you can pass it to the
>  kernel when booting from isolinux.
>
>  But in general, it's not something that we want to be disabling -- it's
>  far better to get to the root of the problem and fix that instead
>
>  Jeremy 
I did not know it was possible to pass kernel options to the 
Live-CD? AFAIR the CD just boots into Linux without offering 
me the option to set parameters.

Regards

Keith

[Douglas McClendon]

Keith Roberts wrote:
>  On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>  
> > To: Keith Roberts <keith(a)karsites.net&gt;, fedora-livecd-list(a)redhat.com
> > From: Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com&gt;
> > Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Laptop options for Live-CD
> >
> > On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 14:24 +0000, Keith Roberts wrote:
> >> I'm not a builder myself atm, but would it be possible for
> >> the Live-CD not use power management on laptops? Or at least
> >> give the user an option of disabling that when booting from
> >> a laptop machine? Reason being is that my mouse jumps all
> >> over the place when some sort of Power Saving happens.
> >
> > If there's a kernel option for disabling it, you can pass it to the
> > kernel when booting from isolinux.
> >
> > But in general, it's not something that we want to be disabling -- it's
> > far better to get to the root of the problem and fix that instead
> >
> > Jeremy
>  
>  I did not know it was possible to pass kernel options to the Live-CD? 
>  AFAIR the CD just boots into Linux without offering me the option to set 
>  parameters. 

Perhaps the README in the root of the f8 livecd should include a section 
ala the 'knoppix cheatcodes'.  Maybe expand it or ammend it to html, 
that is displayed in an autolaunched firefox upon fedora user 
autologging in...

-dmc