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The other day I got up close and personal with my kernel configuration, for the first time in many years. I thought to myself, "If I can't use hibernation on my laptop, at least I can eliminate the need for the initrd, so that I can make it boot faster." While I was at it, I reviewed each and every kernel option, building in only what was essential for booting, modularizing anything else I knew I needed, and disabling everything else. Granted, I'll probably have to rebuild at some point in the future to handle some piece of hardware I didn't anticipate using (like a USB serial converter or something,) but right now, everything seems to be working OK.

As an added bonus, I've hibernated and resumed about a half-dozen times, under various circumstances, without fail. I'm starting to get my hopes up here, as evidenced by the fact that I'm jinxing the whole thing by announcing to the world that, "I might have fixed the hibernation problem on the tx1000". I'm even beginning to experiment with suspend-to-RAM. It appears that TuxOnIce replaces the vanilla kernel's functionality in this area as well, and I've done one suspend/resume cycle successfully so far.

If I can go the requisite week without any problems, I'll post my kernel config to my HOWTO page for everyone to share.