On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 01:49:49AM +0100, Matthieu Gallien wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.10-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Due to the last upload of hal, there is regression in the support of pmu.
> None of them seems complicated to fix as I was able to find workarounds
> without prior knowledge of hal and dbus stuff..
>
> The symptom was that I was no longer able to suspend to ram using kpowersave.
> I used qdbusviewer to interacts with hald and also executed hals in a console.
> I found that /usr/lib/hal/hal-system-power-pm-is-supported reports to hal that
> my computer cannot suspend to ram. This is wrong. Since the regression, I was
> able to suspend my computer using:
> /usr/lib/hal/hal-system-power-pmu sleep
Hmm, do we still ship hal-system-power-pmu, we shouldn't. But that's another
bug :)
> I believe that /usr/lib/hal/hal-system-power-pm-is-supported should be fixed
> to
> at least say yes when an hal helper is able to do the job.
> Second problem, /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-suspend-linux is
> not able to suspend to ram my computer. There the problem is that hal
> apparently only supports pm-utils. Again, adding those some lines solved the
> problem:
What needs to be fixed is pm-utils to properly support suspend on PMU
machines. As soon as this is fixed, hal will automagically start working again.
I'd rather spend my time fixing pm-utils then adding workarounds in hal to hid
problems :) I just haven't come around to actually fixing pm-utils yet.
Sjoerd
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