2008/3/14, Charles Lepple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Arnaud Quette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > 2008/3/14, Charles Lepple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Also, I believe that GNOME has a power monitor that works with HID PDC > > > devices out-of-the-box, which would be another bonus feature if you go > > > down the USB route. > > > > hey Charles, haven't you looked at the NUT HAL support? > > This is all about that, but not limited to HID/PDC (in fact, all the > > NUT USB UPSs are supported) > > > I have looked at it. I think the difference is that if you install the > base GNOME packages on, say, Ubuntu, you get a little bit of HAL PDC > functionality for free. If you want support tailored to a specific > UPS, that's where NUT+HAL comes in to play.
in fact, this base support is serviced by the HAL embedded addon-hid-ups, which is basically the old NUT hidups driver (so based on the hiddev kernel stack and so linux only). This addon is due to removal once nut-hal-drivers is well packaged and distributed... Arnaud -- Linux / Unix Expert R&D - MGE Office Protection Systems - http://www.mgeops.com Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/ Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/ _______________________________________________ Nut-upsuser mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/nut-upsuser
