On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 02:21:12PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Hi, > > today I got feedback from a user who has read the powersave > documentation (Yes, there are users who read docs ;-).
:-) > He was a little bit puzzled, that the documentation says > (docs/powersave.tex, line 70), that ACPID (amongst other daemons) must > not be running, because powersave would handle the ACPI functionality. > But the initscript says, that for a ACPI enabled system, a running acpid > is required (which is correct, now that hal and other processes also > need access to ACPI information, so powersaved can't exclusively grab > /proc/acpi/event). So I would suggest, to either delete ACPID from this > list of daemons, or rephrase the paragraph a bit. Stating that acpid is > required for an ACPI system, but should not process event itself, > something like this. > Comments? I noticed the poor state the powersave documentation is in already and am working on improving it a bit. Some old parts are just obsolete and i removed them, others (like the acpid example) need to get reworked. This particular part escaped my review until now, but i will correct it, too. Thanks for notifying. -- 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
