On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 20:53 +0200, Holger Macht wrote: > But there are situations where you definitely need to change the policy > manually. Imagine an external power supply. I don't know what the english > term is, it's just a big battery which you can plug into the usual ac > interface. It's no battery, but some kind of limited power resource with > which you can even charge your internal batteries.
Do you mean an Uninteruptible Power Supply aka, an UPS? Yes, HAL and g-p-m supports those (arguably only the USB hiddev ones yet) too, see http://blog.fubar.dk/?p=65 ; Also, I believe nowadays g-p-m just gives you another tab "Running on UPS" in the configuration dialog http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/g-p-m-prefs.png if you plug in an UPS. > The system doesn't > recognize if the power source is "limited" or not. And to change the > policy to "powersave" in this case isn't only something experienced users > might want to set. Sure, what's wrong with changing these settings in the power management daemons preference dialog? So, for g-p-m you could add these option to each of the "Running On Battery", "Running On AC" and "Running On UPS" [ ] Spin down disks when idle [ ] Suspend devices not in use [ ] ... just like you can already tweak the LCD brightness on laptops. Personally I'm not sure there is any convincing use-case for these extra options so I'm not really sure I want pm-utils to support these as parameters (e.g. pm-setlowpower would take arguments on what exactly to do). I could be wrong though, I'm not sure I've seen any convincing argument for this. David _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
