Direct App Launch ACPI driver for Linux / News: Recent posts

Release 1.03 includes a fix to compile against linux-2.6.31 and maybe higher. If you find problems, please contact us through the project forums and mailing list.

Hello everybody,

Today I set up the git repo on sourceforge.net and migrated all the archives to there.
I also committed a few fixes to make quickstart work with linux-2.6.28.

The git repo is accessible at:
http://quickstart.git.sourceforge.net

PS: I would like to thank sf.net for making a git repo available to all of us.

I've been trying to integrate this module on the linux-acpi kernel.org branch. This release features all code changes suggested by some linux-acpi developers on their mailing list.

By this means, I would like to ask everyone that is using quickstart to send me the laptop brand and model and quickstart status, so we can have a chance to get this module bundled into upstream Linux.

Thanks all and happy new year.

Supports button devices detected as PNP0C32 (Direct App Launch) under Linux allowing you to start your computer and quickly launch applications without having to load the entire system. This is similar to Vista's Hostart(TM) technology.

As the driver is very simple and there are not reports of problems, we are bumping to stable version 1.0.

We also added an example script to launch applications when your session starts.
It is also possible to boot your linux box directly into your preferred application without having to load every app in init.d, however as you can guess this is highly distro dependent.... read more