Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Laptop options for Live-CD
Keith Roberts wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> To: Keith Roberts <keith(a)karsites.net>, fedora-livecd-list(a)redhat.com
> From: Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
> 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