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
> >  
> >  
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> 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

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> James
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