Re: [Sugar-devel] 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 > resour

Re: [Sugar-devel] 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 pu

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

2009-03-15 Thread David Farning
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 11:37 PM, 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. >  > > >  > > gre

Re: [Sugar-devel] 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.

Re: [Sugar-devel] 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

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 com

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, wrote: > hi -- > > i had an itch that needed scratching, and the result is a > reimplementat

[Sugar-devel] 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 di