Thomas Renninger wrote: > Hi, > > I like to integrate a post-install script that modifies/adopts configuration > variables according to: > > 1) powersave version (for updates) > 2) kernel version > 3) machine specific configurations > > after installation. > > *1) Powersave Version* > > This is mainly the stuff already located in the rpm post-install section. > Maybe we can throw out the 0.7->0.8 version update stuff.
I don't think so. > *3) Machine Specific Configurations* > > - Possibly add suspend to ram hooks for specific kernels/graphics cards, > Seife? if we knew what to do on each machine, this would be easy. We don't. > - Add thermal trip point default values exported from BIOS to config files but please leave thermal management disabled per default - it does not do much good yet :-) > - Check for appropriate CPU freq module and add it to CPUFREQD_MODULE="" > > - Check for all ACPI modules that need to be loaded on that machine and > add > them to ACPI_MODULES="" (This also includes the laptop specific ones). > I'd like to have the loading of ACPI modules at one central place. Were > there any reasons not to do so? Whatabout hal, it is started after the > powersaved daemon, but seems to be able to handle the late loading of > the > ACPI modules? acpid is loading the module and caching the list of loaded modules (on SUSE 10.0, other distributions might also want to solve this with acpid since it is needed for HAL and ial anyway) > - Disable throttling for all SMP machines and machines that support C2 and > higher states (According to Intel throttling consumes more power than > doing > the tasks quickly and then go to C-states in idle). > > - Add a switch_vt hook for ppc on suspend to disk (not sure whether this > is > still necessary for their graphics card drivers). we don't need a hook, just set the apropriate variable to "yes" :-) -- 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 _______________________________________________ powersave-devel mailing list [email protected] http://forge.novell.com/mailman/listinfo/powersave-devel
