[SOLVED] tuxonice-sources and version bump

mathusael · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 22

There is no activity since july this year for the tuxonice-sources within the official repo. Bugzilla does provide a couple of updates but nothing "official".

I'm relying on the tuxonice-sources for my mobile, is tuxonice-sources now outdated and replaced by something within the "normal" gentoo-sources kernel (have they merged or something)? If this is the case and I've missed the announcement, I would gladly accept a pointer to it.

albright · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:07 pm Post subject:

if tuxonice is dead, what is the best option of
hibernation in modern kernels?
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ziggysquatch · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:05 pm Post subject:

grrrrr, I was just gonna switch to that for my laptop. I better wait and see what's going on. Hopefully someone has some info on this.

szczerb · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 4:36 pm Post subject:

Hibernation works just fine even with a vanilla kernel. Tuxonice just gives you a nice splash UI when hibernating. With vanilla (or anything else without TOI) you just see a VT with a blinking cursor during hibernation and some text during wake up.

I use it quite frequently (althoguh recently (in the past week or so) I started using STR instead - it's faster, you just shut your laptop and put in the bag/backpak, then just open it and it's up within 2-3 seconds) and it works fine.

Paczesiowa · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 10:31 am Post subject:

tuxonice isn't dead. there are no 2.6.27 ebuilds in tree because they need current patches from tuxonice which are considered a bit unstable, but next week 3.0_rc8 is supposed to come out so it should change.

szczerb · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 12:15 pm Post subject:

I just can't wait for a 2.6.28 tuxonice-sources ;] Right now I'm using vanilla rc8 and it's great but I'd like to go back (w/o downgrading) to gentoo-sources with tuxonice which tuxonice-sources actually is ;]

dmpogo · Advocate Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 3267 Location: Canada

Well, tuxonice is an easy patch, and patches up to 2.6.27 kernels are avaialble from tuxonice site

albright · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject:

dmpogo · Advocate Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 3267 Location: Canada

albright · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 4:56 am Post subject:

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21633

Also, Nigel has git repositories on kernel.org for most recent TuxOnIce sources. His 2.6.27 work can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nigelc/tuxonice-2.6.27.git. As with all git repositories, using source directly from git means you will be on the bleeding edge. It is the fastest way to get bug fixes, but it may not be as stable as code that upstream has deemed "release quality."

mathusael · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 22

Seems that version revisions have resumed on the offical tree. A couple of new versions have been added. Thanks for all the insider that have provided some hints about what was happening.

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mathusael · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 22