Creating Laptop Profiles

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 14:24 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> seth vidal (skvidal at linux.duke.edu) said: 
> > > 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.
> 
> We're working on that. 

right, well remember, g-p-m is not a requirement of a running laptop -
so the people who just want to use xfce or kde shouldn't be screwed.


> As for the stuff tpb handles, why would you need to mute the gdm screen? :)

it's not running there. Tpb and xosd get invoked in xinitrc.d

-sv