Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-04-01 Thread Peter Robinson
This looks quite interesting. Have you looked at what Fedora is introducing with DeviceKit-power and fellows in Fedora 11. It would be interesting to see the similarities in features to help minimise duplication of effort and to piggy back off Redhat's development resources. They are using it to

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-04-01 Thread pgf
peter wrote: This looks quite interesting. Have you looked at what Fedora is introducing with DeviceKit-power and fellows in Fedora 11. It would be interesting to see the similarities in features to help minimise duplication of effort and to piggy back off Redhat's development resources.

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-20 Thread Albert Cahalan
pgf writes: so: i've packaged a new version of powerd. the big change is that it now allows for the two modes of operation i mentioned last week on the list: dim sleep, screen on sleep, screen off shutdown or:

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-20 Thread pgf
albert wrote: pgf writes: so: i've packaged a new version of powerd. the big change is that it now allows for the two modes of operation i mentioned last week on the list: dim sleep, screen on sleep, screen off

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-19 Thread pgf
okay, if i don't quit playing with this thing and get the taxes done, my wife will kill me. so: i've packaged a new version of powerd. the big change is that it now allows for the two modes of operation i mentioned last week on the list: dim sleep, screen on

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-16 Thread Peter Robinson
  i'm sure rawhide will gain a power management solution of some   sort.  probably ohmd will be added.  i wouldn't be surprised if   olpc-kbdshim and olpc-powerd would work fine as well, but if   you'd like to test that to confirm it, i wouldn't object.  ;-)     Rawhide status: thanks

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-15 Thread Scott Douglass
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 00:37 -0400, p...@laptop.org wrote: scott wrote: 3. with the OLPC kernel and this olpc-kbdshim and olpc-powerd (which by the way are really realy nice, thanks a million pgf!) the XO suspends when via lid switch and the power button. great!

Re: [Sugar-devel] announce: alternate power management

2009-03-15 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:37 PM, p...@laptop.org wrote: scott wrote:       3. with the OLPC kernel and this olpc-kbdshim and olpc-powerd (which by     the way are really realy nice, thanks a million pgf!) the XO suspends     when via lid switch and the power button.     great!  did

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-14 Thread pgf
mikus wrote: configurable timeouts for screen dim and sleep. the dim level is configurable. My XO systems are plugged in to the AC, so I normally leave them running 24/7. But in the middle of the night if I happen to walk by, I notice if they are acting as light sources. Two

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-14 Thread pgf
i wrote: b) i've seen out-of-sync ebook switch behavior -- i.e., the event being reported (ebook open/close) exactly mismatches the physical condition of ebook mode. since this behavior was described for the lid switch in #5703 (and fixed), i'm guessing the ebook

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-14 Thread Scott Douglass
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 09:37 -0400, p...@laptop.org wrote: mikus wrote: - Rawhide. AFAIK there currently is no dimming support at all. I either have to power off such an XO overnight, or have to close the lid while the backlight is still lit. It would be useful if rawhide

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-14 Thread pgf
scott wrote: On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 09:37 -0400, p...@laptop.org wrote: i'm sure rawhide will gain a power management solution of some sort. probably ohmd will be added. i wouldn't be surprised if olpc-kbdshim and olpc-powerd would work fine as well, but if you'd like to test that

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-14 Thread Scott Douglass
3. with the OLPC kernel and this olpc-kbdshim and olpc-powerd (which by the way are really realy nice, thanks a million pgf!) the XO suspends when via lid switch and the power button. great! did you try the grab keys and rotation? (those are just olpc-kbdshim.) olpc-rotate should

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-14 Thread pgf
scott wrote: 3. with the OLPC kernel and this olpc-kbdshim and olpc-powerd (which by the way are really realy nice, thanks a million pgf!) the XO suspends when via lid switch and the power button. great! did you try the grab keys and rotation? (those are just

announce: alternate power management

2009-03-13 Thread pgf
hi -- i had an itch that needed scratching, and the result is a reimplementation of much (but not all) of what ohmd does currently. i've thought for some time (and i believe cjb agrees) that ohmd is needlessly difficult to maintain and modify for our purposes on the XO. small improvements are

Re: [Sugar-devel] announce: alternate power management

2009-03-13 Thread David Farning
Very cool! How well will this integrate with the power management systems other distros are using? Can it become a 'Value Added' for other netbook manufacturers? david On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:33 PM, p...@laptop.org wrote: hi -- i had an itch that needed scratching, and the result is a

Re: [Sugar-devel] announce: alternate power management

2009-03-13 Thread pgf
david wrote: Very cool! How well will this integrate with the power management systems other distros are using? Can it become a 'Value Added' for other netbook manufacturers? while i'd love to say i did a lot of research and prep in order to make sure my little project was api

Re: announce: alternate power management

2009-03-13 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
configurable timeouts for screen dim and sleep. the dim level is configurable. My XO systems are plugged in to the AC, so I normally leave them running 24/7. But in the middle of the night if I happen to walk by, I notice if they are acting as light sources. Two concerns (for which I