disappointment over default acpid config

[Richard Hughes]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 00:50 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 20:36 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
> > Have you seen the work that HAL and GNOME Power Manager [1] have been
> > doing?
> >
> > You can disable acpid, and configure gnome-power-manager to sleep,
> > hibernate or shutdown on the button presses.
> >
> > I think FC5 will be shipping g-p-m by default, so this should solve your
> > problems. There is a yum repo for FC4 users too.
> 
> What's the solution for non-graphics mode challenged?  There's 
> probably no use working on acpid now, if it's going to be replaced -- 
> but if it's replaced, the replacement should not assume X.

Well, you can still use acpid scripts if you like :-) In the g-p-m m/l
we are talking about ways to solve the "no X" situation, maybe involving
a "headless" (i.e. no gui) version of gnome-power-manager starting at
the login screen, or maybe just having a fallback in hal if there is no
g-p-m.

> (I'm just using acpid to put to suspend-to-mem and hopefully at some 
> point suspend-to-disk.)

All of this should "just work" [1] using a recent HAL, pm-utils and
g-p-m.

Richard.

[1] Assuming the kernel doesn't blow up.