hal vs acpid

[Dan Nicholson]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Scott White <nwi_sub at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>  But for the short term I am stuck with it and was wondering if anything was being done about this issue.  I don't have any gnome stuff, but I will try kpowersave and see what it does.

If you need to be on the console or just don't want to pull in
gnome-power-manager or kpowersave, then you can try using ivman to
listen for HAL events.

http://ivman.sourceforge.net/

It seems like it should be able to do what you're after.

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Dan