[Pm-utils] low power mode

[Peter Jones]

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 19:08 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 10:28 -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 22:56 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > The low power mode script is currently included in CVS. It sets laptop
> > > mode tools, but I've had feedback that some people want to do mad things
> > > like throttling the cpu power and other stuff when on low power mode.
> > > 
> > > What about a
> > > 
> > > /etc/pm/lowpower.d/
> > > 
> > > directory that users/distros can do weird stuff in - for instance
> > > disabling services from running and other odd stuff.
> > > 
> > > To be honest I'm not sure, but I thought I would get the discussion
> > > going.
> > 
> > To be honest, I'm not sure it's worth spending much more time on at this
> > point, unless somebody has some examples of things we could do that
> > aren't really, really closely tied to user preferences.
> 
> Well, to integrate with powersaved people are going to want to do:
> 
> /usr/bin/powersave -e Powersave
> and
> /usr/bin/powersave -e Performance
> 
> and you could imagine wackier things that distros vendors would want to
> do -- for example flashing a LED when in low power mode.
> 
> It's surely a 5 minute job to add?

Indeed.  Go for it ;)
-- 
  Peter