The Fedora Core 4 install went well -- basically everything was
auto-detected and worked. The following are a few small tweaks:
ACPI S3 Sleep
Added
pci=noacpi acpi_sleep=s3_bios pci=usepirqmask
to the kernel command line to fix an S3 sleep problem (graphics
doesn't work upon resume). And it now works reliably even with the
ipw2100 module loaded.
Previous (eg. FC-3) kernels had flaky ACPI S3 suspend/resume problems
that could be worked around by:
unloading the ipw2100 module
stopping pcmcia, unloading the pcmcia modules, and physically
removing all pcmcia/cardbus cards
unloading the USB modules
but current (eg. 2.6.14-1.1653_FC4) FC-4 kernels don't seem to suffer
from these problems any longer!
swsusp2
With FC-3, I used to use the swsusp2 kernels as provided by
http://mhensler.de/swsusp/ but ACPI S3 now works very nicely so
there is little need of the slower suspend-to-disk functionality.