[Pm-utils] low power mode

[Holger Macht]

On Mon 01. May - 23:21:24, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:05:24PM -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 20:53 +0200, Holger Macht wrote:
> > > But there are situations where you definitely need to change the policy
> > > manually. Imagine an external power supply. I don't know what the english
> > > term is, it's just a big battery which you can plug into the usual ac
> > > interface. It's no battery, but some kind of limited power resource with
> > > which you can even charge your internal batteries. 
> > 
> > Do you mean an Uninteruptible Power Supply aka, an UPS? Yes, HAL and
> 
> no, something like:
> http://www.sps-ltd.com/product/external/max90/max90.htm

Thanks, Stefan! I'm looking for such a link already for about 20 Minutes
now ;-)

> 
> > Sure, what's wrong with changing these settings in the power management
> > daemons preference dialog? So, for g-p-m you could add these option to
> > each of the "Running On Battery", "Running On AC" and "Running On UPS"
> > 
> >  [ ] Spin down disks when idle
> >  [ ] Suspend devices not in use
> >  [ ] ...
> 
> Yes, it should IMO go there, not into some "lowpower" method of HAL.

I didn't want to say that the functionality should go to HAL, but only that
there are situations where you have to set the policy manually because the
system can't figure it out by itself.

Regards,
	Holger