reopen 456598
reassign powertop
retitle 456598 powertop should correctly use hal-disable-polling
thanks

Michael Biebl schrieb:
> brian m. carlson schrieb:
>> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 08:47:16AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>>> Works fine for me.
>>> Could you post the value storage.media_check_enabled for your cd drive.
>> It is true.
>>
>>> Do you have a file in /etc/hal/fdi/information/media-check*fdi
>> /etc/hal/fdi/information/ is empty.
>>
>> Also note that I used powertop to disable polling.  It complains with a
>> different error when I manually run hal-disable-polling to disable polling.
>>
> 
> That's the cause then. powertop simply kills the hald-addon-storage
> process, it doesn't correctly disable it. That's why hal-disable-polling
>  --enable-polling reports that polling is already enabled (it check for
> storage.media_check_enabled which powertop doesn't set to false).
> 
> To correctly disable/enable polling, please use hal-disable-polling only!
> 
> Not a but in hal, therefore closing it.
> 
> What you can do, is file a bug against powertop, to correctly use
> hal-disable-polling.

Ok, it's probably best to simply reassign the bug.
I reopened and reassigned it to powertop.

Thanks for the bug report,
Michael

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