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210 lines
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>Kernel</TITLE
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TITLE="Linux on the Road"
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TITLE="Dealing with Limited Resources or Tuning the System"
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TITLE="Power Saving Techniques"
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>Appendix E. Dealing with Limited Resources or Tuning the System</TD
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>E.8. Kernel</H1
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>E.8.1. Related Documentation</H2
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> <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Kernel-HOWTO</A
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>BootPrompt-HOWTO</A
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</P
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> Many kernel features are related to laptops. For instance APM,
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<SPAN
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>IrDA</SPAN
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>®,
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>PCMCIA</SPAN
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> and some options for certain laptops, e.g.
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>IBM</SPAN
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>™ ThinkPads. In some distributions they are not
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included by default. And the kernel is usually bigger than necessary. So it's
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seems a good idea to customize the kernel. Though this task might seem
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difficult for the beginner it is highly recommended. Since this
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involves dangerous operations you need to be careful. But, if you can
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install a better kernel successfully, you've earned your intermediate
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Linux sysadmin merit badge. - I will not handle this here,
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because this topic is already covered in other documents.
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> Compile a modular kernel with modules for CDROM, floppy,
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pcmcia, sound and any other peripherals. It will allow to delay
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loading of these modules until these devices are actually used,
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and it may help recover the system after a hardware failure,
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e.g. a bad CDROM, because a module can be removed and
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re-inserted without restarting the system.
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</P
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>Power Saving Techniques</TD
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