ups with nut and hal

[Amadeus W.M.]

On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:26:05 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 00:13:33 +0000,
>   "Amadeus W.M." <amadeus84 at verizon.net> wrote:
>> Does anyone have nut with hal working for a ups connected to a usb
>> port?
>> 
>> I'm trying to get mine to work, and the docs say gnome-power-manager
>> should pop-up and let me see and do things, but nothing happened.
>> 
>> lsusb sees the ups on a usb port, but that's all I can say. I believe
>> no driver is being loaded for the ups, so probably hal (or maybe udev)
>> is not doing what should be doing. I'll be happy to provide any
>> necessary information to figure this out. I'd appreciate any clue from
>> anyone who has this thing working under hal.
> 
> I have a ups with a usb connection and am using nut to monitor it. I
> haven't tested that it shuts down properly since rawhide switched to
> upstart, but it did work previously.
> 
> I don't use gnome-power-manager though. I hand edited the config files
> and use the 'ups' service to watch it. usbhid-ups is the driver for most
> usb ups's in rawhide. Before that it was newhidups.


Thanks, I know all this. Nut is supposed to work with hal, automatically, 
for usb ups's, with no manual configuration, and I only wanted to know if 
it's really working and how can I test if mine is.