On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:10 AM, T o n g <mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:25:58 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Huh? AFAIK, pm-utils never depended on HAL; it used to recommend it, >> but it does not do this anymore. > > "pm-utils is the new suspend and powerstate setting framework. It is > usually used by HAL to execute the various hacks. . . Both pm-suspend and > pm-hibernate are usually called from HAL, initiated by desktop applets as > gnome-power-manager or kpowersave... "
That says that HAL can use the pm-utils package. Not that pm-utils depends on HAL. Systems without HAL installed can use other mechanisms to call pm-utils, like acpi, udisks, udev, etc. > "A key package for Lenny's power management is HAL (hal)which watches for > ACPI events. . . The package pm-utils is a package of power management > software. It stands between HAL and actually suspending the system..." > > So, what's the latest update on this? That is referring to Gnome's power management on Lenny. It uses acpi, pm-utils and hal. Squeeze may or may not do the same, I'm not sure. But again, that says nothing about pm-utils needing HAL to work. Merely that HAL is the mechanism used to watch for ACPI events, but others are available to do that job as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinux755a6gauf9s6m=ugv8pca2hfx7gj5uce...@mail.gmail.com
