Stuart F. Biggar wrote: > I was thinking about installing enhanced acpi and the gnome power manager > but I'm a total novice at gnome. In the README for the gnome power manager, > I see I'm supposed to: > > "upgrade hicolor theme before installing GNOME-power-manager" > > Can someone fill me in on details of what exactly this means or point me > to a reference? (I tried google and searching on the OpenSolaris site but > I haven't found anything yet) > > I'm running snv_78 on x86 (32-bit). So I assume that the battery driver from > the enhanced acpi (32 bit) just replaces the one in /kernel/drv ? > > I'd appreciate any help. Thanks, > > Stuart > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org > GNOME support for ACPI is not there yet. It's not a matter of dropping in a different module, support has to come from updating several components dependent on the changes, not just a matter of the kernel since GNOME doesn't have Solaris' kernel in mind nor can it just work with it. Suspend/resume support is mostly working for the reference platform, which is Ultra 20 M2. (Opteron/nForce) but other ACPI features such as CPU frequency changing will not happen to any chip except Barcelona and Kentsfield, I can't name the specific feature but it has to do with ticks, anything before it is less than reliable and is not easy to implement. Things like LED controls are per-unit, and are maintained by individual contributers, the main focus is just getting suspend/resume working, later adding support to GNOME, followed by CPU throttling, and then whatever else is on the roadmap.
James
