s2ram (Was: Re: Request for comments: Laptop improvements)
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Thu Jun 15 12:50:16 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 08:43 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 15.06.2006, 02:12 -0400 schrieb Dave Jones:
> > On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 07:27:46AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch, den 14.06.2006, 17:59 +0200 schrieb Phil Knirsch:
> > > > [...]
> > > > This includes
> > > > things like suspend/hibernate and resume, docking stations and
> > > > powersaving just to name a few.
> > > > [...]
> > > This reminds me: Are there any plans to use s2ram in Fedora?
> > If anywhere, that magic really belongs in HAL.
> > The ubuntu folks seem to agree.
>
> That's okay for me. Are there any efforts in that direction already?
> gnome-power-manager perhaps?
Yeah, see the archives of the hal list over the past month or two.
> BTW, managing whitelists and "lists with required workarounds for
> certain laptops" really sounds like something to me that needs to be
> handled somewhere "upstream" -- otherwise each distro would have to
> manage its own lists and that wastes a lot of man-power without a real
> benefit afaics...
*nod* This is part of why pm-utils has moved to fdo and there's a list
there. The nice thing about handling the quirking with HAL is that you
can describe the quirks needed just with an FDI file. And in a utopian
future, perhaps vendors will distribute FDI files for their hardware
describing the quirks they need[1]
Jeremy
[1] Okay, clearly I'm sleep deprived from the freeze process ;-)
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