gnome-power-manager

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 02:53:30PM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 08:04:27PM +0100, Pedro Martínez Juliá wrote:
> > In the pacakge, "gnome-power-manager" depends on
> > "powermanagement-interface" but g-p-m sends its signals directly to HAL.
> > I think Ubuntu uses "acpi-support" for handling all ACPI events... "pmi"
> > is not needed.
> 
> My understanding is that HAL listens for ACPI events directly now, so I'm
> not even sure whether we need all of acpi-support anymore.
> 
> Matthew, can you clarify how this is supposed to work now?

acpi-support still handles a lot of functionality that isn't implemented 
elsewhere, though this is gradually being moved into the kernel. We 
really ought to be moving over to pm-utils for the actual suspend 
functionality for consistency with other distributions, but that doesn't 
quite remove the need for acpi-support yet.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org