Problem Suspending on Debian Etch (Solved)

Tim Dijkstra newsuser at famdijkstra.org
Wed Sep 27 15:59:06 PDT 2006


Op Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:53:33 -0400
schreef David Zeuthen <david at fubar.dk>:

> On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 23:47 +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> > I thought it had 2.6.17 already, anyway etch will probably  be
> > released with 2.6.18. The uswsusp README says to use 2.6.17 or
> > higher kernels. Unfortunately I can't Depend: on a kernel version...
> 
> Not sure how apt / dpkg / Debian policies work but on Fedora we
> normally 
> 
>  Conflicts: kernel < 2.6.17 
> 
> for user space packages that need kernels newer than 2.6.17. But I
> understand if such policies may be too strict for some distributions.

Yes, debian wants to support self compiled kernels.

grts Tim


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