Laptop-mode-tools, and self-reintroduction

[Warren Togami]

Per Bjornsson wrote:
> One thing that drives me nuts is that my laptop has too little battery
> life. Something that fixes this up a bit is the laptop-mode (which is a
> kernel feature) together with the control scripts. Unfortunately, the
> control scripts (laptop-mode-tools) are not shipped with Fedora, so I
> packaged them up:
> 
> http://www.stanford.edu/~perbj/fedora/SRPMS/laptop-mode-
> tools-1.04-0.1.src.rpm
> http://www.stanford.edu/~perbj/fedora/RPMS/laptop-mode-
> tools-1.04-0.1.noarch.rpm
> 
> Note that for a while the scripts were stuffed in the kernel
> Documentation/laptop-mode.txt file, but what's there is outdated now,
> this package should be better. Also, I used the 0.1 release tag since
> these are not official Fedora packages yet; they are signed with my GPG
> key (0x7201315D, available from pgp.mit.edu).
> 
> As far as I can tell the package seems to do the right thing with ACPI
> in any case; I belive that APM should also work out of the box, but that
> the PPC power management daemons need some additional configuration in
> order to use this. (I'm consideering whether I should have the
> installation do an acpid reload after installation; otherwise they won't
> actually kick in until next boot, or at least until somthing kicks the
> ACPI daemon...)
> 
> In principle I think that this might want to be integrated in some more
> universal power management daemon (such as Gnome-power-manager) but as
> far as I can tell that won't really be a realistic option for FC4 in any
> case. I think that this is a nice interim measure and it should be easy
> to replace with something better once that comes along.
> 

Have to put a hold on this, because it sounds like it will conflict with 
the work davidz is working on for FC4 Core.  David should review what 
you have here and communicate his plans and existing packages.  This was 
previous discussed in fedora-maint list, you can read the archives here:
http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers

See the thread "STR working out of the box" which began during March.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com