Components

• Antec Sonata III 500 Black 0.8mm cold rolled steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 500W Power Supply - Retail
• EVGA 256-P2-N761-AR GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card - Retail
• ASUS P5E3 PREMIUM/WIFI-AP @n LGA 775 DDR3 Intel X48 ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail
• Kingston 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model KVR1066D3N7K2/4G - Retail
• Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Yorkfield 2.5GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80580Q9300 - Retail
• ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm CPU Cooler - Retail
• SABRENT 5ft. USB to Parallel ( Printer IEEE 1284 ) Cable Model SBT-UPPC - Retail
• Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500AAKS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM

Assembly

Went together without a hitch. POST on first power-up. Booted into ASUS Express Gate and browsed the web over the integrated 802.11n. Perfectly easy.

Parallel Port

Used the IEEE 1284 to usb adapter. No problem. Just edited /etc/cups/printers.conf from /dev/lp0 to /dev/usb/lp0.

Express Gate Vs. TuxOnIce

TuxOnIce is about 45 seconds, Express Gate is 30 seconds.

Operating System

Using Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)

Kernel

linux-2.6.25.16.tar.bz2 with tuxonice-3.0-rc7-for-2.6.25.patch.bz2
Config

WiFi Network Driver

2008_0718_RT2870_Linux_STA_v1.3.1.0.tar.bz2 Don't look for the wifi card with lspci, use lsusb instead.

TuxOnIce

hibernate-script-1.99.tar.gz suspend2-userui-0.7.2.tar.gz
added resume=swap:/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 to command line. Three hitches.

• Had to change init in the initrd image. Unpacked the image. Comment out "resume /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01" and put in "echo 1 > /sys/power/tuxonice/do_resume" instead.
• rt2870sta has bad power management, needs to be blacklisted in /etc/hibernate/blacklisted-modules. Also have to add "DownInterfaces ra0" and "UpInterfaces ra0" to /etc/hibernate/common.conf
• Was running out of page allowances. Had to add "ProcSetting extra_pages_allowance 0" to common.conf

Picassa

Had to add "vm.mmap_min_addr = 0" to /etc/sysctl.conf

Video Driver

NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.12-pkg1.run remove nvidia from /etc/hibernate/blacklisted-modules.

Flash Plugin for Firefox

Had to install libflashsupport from http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/FlashPlayer9Solution

Xen

Very upset that the SATA controller doesn't seem to be supported under 2.6.18 and Xen.
See this thread.