hi, I1ve came across some things, they are appended in the patches.
something else: i noticed that one needs to know the root pw for rebooting the box with kde/kdm. Is this intentional? happy hacking, ---- Péter
--- old/hotplug.txt 2007-02-20 20:14:00.000000000 +0100 +++ new/hotplug.txt 2007-04-01 20:43:45.000000000 +0200 @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ if your model is supported. (If it's not available on your system, a simple `su -c \'pacman-g2 -S gphoto2\'` will install it onto your system.) -== Automounting: D-BUS, HAL and Ivman +== Automounting: D-BUS, HAL and Ivman; Gnome and KDE D-BUS is a simple IPC (inter-process communication) library based on messages. HAL is a hardware abstraction layer which uses D-BUS. Ivman is based on HAL @@ -65,3 +65,7 @@ If you want to change the default settings, all config files are located in /etc/ivman. They are plain XML files, just read them, everything is quite self-explanatory. + +Automounting also happens with KDE and Gnome, but their respective VFS +implementation do that, not ivman. Ivman is useful for other windowing systems +where is no support for such a feature.
--- old/mobile.txt 2007-02-20 20:14:00.000000000 +0100 +++ new/mobile.txt 2007-04-01 21:17:07.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,15 +1,21 @@ = Mobile computers -== Battery +== Battery, buttons, thermal management -Notebook users are usually interested in the state of their battery. Usually -the following steps are required to enable this functionality: - -Add the following two lines to your '/etc/sysconfig/modules': +Notebook users are usually interested in the state of their battery. +To get the power button and the lid's sensor of its closed state emit +events is also nice. Some notebooks only shut down their continously +running fans and operate only if needed if the thermal module is loaded. + +Usually the following steps are required to enable this functionality: +Adding the following lines to '/etc/sysconfig/modules' to get modules +loaded at system startup: ------- battery ac +button +thermal ------- The next task is to enable the acpid service: @@ -31,6 +37,28 @@ The only remaining task is to start a client: if you're on console, try the 'acpi' command, or the relevant applet of your favorite window manager. +== Conserving power + +The major consumers of power in a notebook are the LCD (size and brightness +level), the CPU, hard drives, wireless transceivers like WiFi, Bluetooth, +Infrared and the GPU if you have a powerful one. + +You can conserve a fair amount of power if you lessen the brightness level +of the LCD screen. Some notebooks can remember two settings of this level, +one when the equipment operates from battery and for another when powered +from AC. + +The CPUs have some sort of power saving capabilities, the most basic is +"CPU throttling". Common on Intel mobile Celeron CPUs, only ACPI is +needed. Klaptop has a setting for it, where you can specify the level. + +FIXME governors, Intel Centrino/Core, AMD + +Letting the HDD spin down gives little extra battery operating time, but +frequent spinups (data access) and spindowns wears the disk. Only useful +in situations where there is no frequent need for data on hdd like holding +a presentation. + == Hibernation Hibernating your computer can cause data loss or severe filesystem damage
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