On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:05:24PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 20:53 +0200, Holger Macht wrote: > > But there are situations where you definitely need to change the policy > > manually. Imagine an external power supply. I don't know what the english > > term is, it's just a big battery which you can plug into the usual ac > > interface. It's no battery, but some kind of limited power resource with > > which you can even charge your internal batteries. > > Do you mean an Uninteruptible Power Supply aka, an UPS? Yes, HAL and
no, something like: http://www.sps-ltd.com/product/external/max90/max90.htm > Sure, what's wrong with changing these settings in the power management > daemons preference dialog? So, for g-p-m you could add these option to > each of the "Running On Battery", "Running On AC" and "Running On UPS" > > [ ] Spin down disks when idle > [ ] Suspend devices not in use > [ ] ... Yes, it should IMO go there, not into some "lowpower" method of HAL. -- Stefan Seyfried \ "I didn't want to write for pay. I QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices \ wanted to be paid for what I write." SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg \ -- Leonard Cohen _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
