Creating Laptop Profiles

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 14:00 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> D Canfield (canfield at uindy.edu) said: 
> > - require the tpb and other necessary packages for full hardware support
> > - include appropriate T43-specific config files for the tpb program
> 
> Why is tpb needed as opposed to /proc/acpi/ibm?
> 
> Actually, why isn't tpb written as a interface neutral wrapper
> around HAL?
> 
> > - include appropriate acpi scripts and put them in the right places
> 
> Similarly, this should be done via generic callouts in g-p-m or similar.

no b/c if you're not logged in - but just sitting at the gdm screen, for
example, the g-p-m doesn't work and your system won't suspend.

I just experienced that with fc5t2 - boy was it a treat. :)

-sv