Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:32 AM, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:17:57 +, T o n g wrote: ... Of all the following acpi related packages, which ones do you have (or, which ones should I tell my debootstrap to install)? acpi-fakekey - tool to generate fake

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:37:55 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: I don't have the context of you previous e-mail, so my answer is just biased by what I use, which is NO desktop environment at all Thanks. I use fluxbox and don't use desktop environment myself as well (my wife does). Thank you for

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:32:13 +, T o n g wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:17:57 +, T o n g wrote: you shouldn't care about the backend used by gnome-power-manager . . . Nowadays gnome-power-manager seems to use DBus instad of HAL, though. I build my system from scratch

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:32 AM, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:17:57 +, T o n g wrote: ... Of all the following acpi related packages, which ones do you have (or, which ones

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:49 AM, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:37:55 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: ... Thanks. I use fluxbox and don't use desktop environment myself as well (my wife does). Thank you for your detailed explanation to disentangle them for me.

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Mark Goldshtein mark.goldsht...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com wrote: ... If you have couple of minutes, would you, please, to expand your comments about a system without desktop environment?

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Mark Goldshtein mark.goldsht...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com wrote: ... If you have couple of minutes, would you,

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
Lots of useful info in there Javier. Also worth mentioning, though it doesn't seem you use it, is laptop-mode-tools. I did include it in the ones I have installed, :-) The original list had it with some words as well, so I thought it was not necessary to make additional comments... See this

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Arthur Machlas
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Javier Vasquez j.e.vasque...@gmail.com wrote: Lots of useful info in there Javier. Also worth mentioning, though it doesn't seem you use it, is laptop-mode-tools. I did include it in the ones I have installed, :-)  The original list had it with some words as

Re: To enable the power management mechanism

2010-09-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
When you install it, I don't remember if hdparm and sdparm are automatically triggered as dependencies, but then if not it's pretty good idea to have them installed, so that laptop-mode  can play with the HDs speeds...  It can handle as well CPU frequency, but I prefer cpufreqd for