On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 09:20:34PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 20:12 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > I don't think this should be seen as a blocker to including > > gnome-power-manager right now. > > That's my opinion too.
Cool. In that case, can you propose it for 2.14? :) > > My only concern is whether there's adequate HAL support for other > > platforms for gnome-power-manager to work properly there. It would be > > unfortunate for things like DPMS settings to end up Linux-only. > > Sure, I'm working now on getting PMU support as good as the ACPI support > in HAL (hindered as I don't have a powerbook!) so that Macs *and* Intel > play nicely. Ok. I'm happy to eyeball patches, but the only Apple hardware I have is my mail server, so I'm probably not going to be able to test it that well... > A BSD power backend in HAL wouldn't take too much work, as most of the > code can be copied from other GPL sources. Excellent. As far as APM goes, my recollection is that *BSDs provide a pretty Linux compatible interface. I haven't checked ACPI. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list