On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 23:00 -0800, James Cornell wrote: > 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.
Yeah, so far only part of GPM features are available, battery monitoring, lid. The others like suspend/resume, brightness are under development. Revelant hal and driver will come in the near feature, then GPM tarball here will be also updated accordingly. Welcome you try later. -Simon > > James > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
