Hi all, On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:13:33 +1100 Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11 Dec 2001, Hubert Chan wrote: > > > > Why on earth is X doing power management stuff? > > For the same reason it drives the video hardware directly. It knows what > it has done, the kernel doesn't. > > It's also worth noting that the kernel would never know as much about > the interaction of X and the hardware as X will...
Note, however, that there are some laptops that need the X servers power management turned off in order for them to resume!!! (Thinking especially of the IBM Thinkpad t23 at least). -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
