gnome-power-manager

[Matt Price]

On Fri, 2007-01-06 at 15:01 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.
> 
is there any documentation anywhere of the current power-management
schemas (in feisty and gutsy)?  I think the old user wiki page at 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeistySuspendOverview is somewhat outdated now
and i don't know of any other overview.  i'd be happy to help improve
the situation if pointed to some information source.

matt




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> Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
> 
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Matt Price
History Dept
University of Toronto
matt.price at utoronto.ca
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