Hello Raul and all, > Hello Eric, All: > > El Sábado 11 Octubre 2008, Eric Doviak escribió: > > JOY !!! Oh, joy! I just noticed that I don't have to recompile my kernel to > > use KLaptop on Debian Lenny! > > > > Glad to hear that. I still think that Debian is about choosing, and being > able to choose is good. You made yours and it's ok, but I'd like to clarify > why kpowersave was chosen and to comment out your e-mail. I'm glad you did. Thank you.
> klaptopdaemon uses deprecated methods for most things, like hibernating, > suspending to ram or even checking your battery status. Deprecated doesn't > mean that it doesn't work, just that it is not the advisable method. This is > becuase they could be removed at any time or for example that hibernating may > broke because something changes slightly. I like those deprecated old methods. They work. I do understand and respect your arguments however, especially in regard to upstream maintenance. I also remember that you have been closely working on this issue since it arose a few months ago and I appreciate your efforts. Just to follow up ... > Regarding your suspend/hibernate problem, I have the impression that it was > possibly a hal issue. kpowersave just calls hibernate/suspend functions on > hal, which may not be as advanced as hibernate scripts which are usually > called by klaptopdaemon. Maybe you need to configure hal to do better, but I > would agree that being as you explain it was a bug and should be reported (on > either kpowersave or hal) and eventually solved. Actually, it appears to be a well-known, long-standing problem with Madwifi: * http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383169 * http://madwifi.org/ticket/671 Thanks, - Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
