On Fri 26. Aug 13:16:31, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> Anton Farygin wrote:
> > Great !
> >
> > Danny, where possible download current unstable version ? only from CVS ?
>
> yes, only from CVS now. We should do a release, now that the biggest
> changes are done, but our schedule is pretty tight right now :-(
>
> Until then, use:
> - powersave CVS HEAD
> - kpowersave CVS DBUS_INTEGRATION branch (this is actually where the
> DBUS work took place and it will be merged back into HEAD, but right
> now it is the latest and greatest).
>
> > I plan build it for ALT Linux Sisyphus (unstable ALT Linux repository)
> > after hal-0.5.4 release. (for testing)
>
> cool.
> Powersave HEAD may have rough edges building, but if it builds, it
> should run just fine :-)
>
> We now use HAL to acquire battery info.
> The communication with the clients (kpowersave etc) is done via DBUS
> now, we got rid of the socket interface.
> We also made acpid mandatory for both powersave and hal to dispatch the
> ACPI events, so the problem of many processes competing for
> /proc/acpi/event is mostly solved (powersaved can still access
> /proc/acpi/event, but it does not fallback from acpid to /proc, it just
> waits for acpid to reappear). Danny can tell you more about the hal
> stuff (hal also has to wait for acpid to reappear and not grab
> /proc/acpi/event), but IIUC most of those patches are submitted back
> upstream.
JFYI: If there are any problems with hal, it is also possible to build
without hal support by giving --disable-hal to the configure script.
Bye,
Holger
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