hal and keymap quirks

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Fri Feb 22 11:56:42 PST 2008


On Freitag, 22. Februar 2008, Zdenek Prikryl wrote:
> Danny Kukawka napsal(a):
[..]
> > There is no mapping. Your desktop environment (e.g. KPowersave for KDE or
> > gpm for the other desktop) have to react on the key and, if configured,
> > call the suspend via HAL
>
> Ok, I thought, that hal works in similar way like acpid does. So one can
> add scripts directly without any power manager.

No. You can't, the whole process of suspened is a interaction of Desktop, HAL, 
pm-utils and the kernel.It always need some to which tell HAL to suspend via 
call pm-utils which execute some scripts, handle quirks etc and call tell 
then the kernel to suspend.

Danny




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