Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2008-01-27 Thread Will Stephenson
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 06:11:01 John E. Perry wrote: Thanks, Hans Petter.  I hope the KDE people get their power management act together soon, even though the gnome power manager appears to work fine under KDE, and I don't really see a need to go back. I can't find the root of this

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2008-01-27 Thread John E. Perry
Will Stephenson wrote: On Wednesday 23 January 2008 06:11:01 John E. Perry wrote: Thanks, Hans Petter. I hope the KDE people get their power management act together soon, even though the gnome power manager appears to work fine under KDE, and I don't really see a need to go back. I can't

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2008-01-27 Thread Will Stephenson
On Sunday 27 January 2008 21:25:57 John E. Perry wrote: Since I don't know how often you monitor the list, I'm sending a copy to you personally to be sure it gets there quickly. The thread started back in September or October when I commented (I believe during a different thread) that my

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2008-01-22 Thread John E. Perry
Hans Petter Jansson wrote: On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 18:17 -0600, John E. Perry wrote: Hans Petter Jansson wrote: ...have you tried the GNOME Power Manager? OK, I tried it -- it works great! It says both of my batteries are about dead -- either damaged or very old (in fact, 1-1/2 year old),

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2008-01-14 Thread Aaron Kulkis
John E. Perry wrote: Hans Petter Jansson wrote: On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 16:37 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Have you asked them when they're going to give real support for basic linux functionality Well, Aaron, I recall that hp was one of the lesser good guys, along with IBM and Novell,

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2008-01-14 Thread Philippe Landau
Hans Petter Jansson wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 06:09 +0100, Philippe Landau wrote: Hans Petter Jansson wrote: I haven't tried it, but I can't see any immediate reason why it would'nt. The package name is gnome-power-manager, and you can start it from the command line using that same

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2008-01-13 Thread Aaron Kulkis
John E. Perry wrote: Aaron Kulkis wrote: John E. Perry wrote: Thanks, Frank. This seems to have solved my problem. ...well, one thing has nagged me since I put 10.1 on this thing last year, but it's never been enough of an issue to prod me into asking about it. The battery indication is

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2008-01-13 Thread Hans Petter Jansson
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 16:37 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Have you asked them when they're going to give real support for basic linux functionality (not any distro in particular...just the software which the distributers collect to make a distribution, such as, in this case, releasing

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2008-01-13 Thread John E. Perry
Hans Petter Jansson wrote: On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 16:37 -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote: Have you asked them when they're going to give real support for basic linux functionality Well, Aaron, I recall that hp was one of the lesser good guys, along with IBM and Novell, resisting the SCO attempt to

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2008-01-13 Thread Hans Petter Jansson
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 18:17 -0600, John E. Perry wrote: Hans Petter Jansson wrote: I guess this is a bit offtopic, but have you tried the GNOME Power Manager? It creates dynamic battery profiles through statistical sampling. Seems to work pretty well. Pretty graphs too :) I didn't know

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2008-01-12 Thread John E. Perry
Aaron Kulkis wrote: John E. Perry wrote: Thanks, Frank. This seems to have solved my problem. ...well, one thing has nagged me since I put 10.1 on this thing last year, but it's never been enough of an issue to prod me into asking about it. The battery indication is completely nonsensical.

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2007-12-01 Thread Aaron Kulkis
John E. Perry wrote: Thanks, Frank. This seems to have solved my problem. ...well, one thing has nagged me since I put 10.1 on this thing last year, but it's never been enough of an issue to prod me into asking about it. The battery indication is completely nonsensical. If I calibrate the

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2007-11-01 Thread John E. Perry
Frank Seidel wrote: Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 04:42:34 schrieb John E. Perry: Thinking I'd messed up the KPowersave configuration somehow, I opened it to reconfigure it. _Everything_ is now grayed out. ... In summary, /etc/pm/config.d, sleep,d, and power.d are all empty. I can't find any

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2007-10-30 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Jeffrey L. Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: See the thread Suspend to swap replacement on 10.3 for Thinkpad T41. Powermanagement is now down by the pm utilities. pm-hibernate does suspend to Oops, Powermanagement is now DONE by the pm utilities. Jeffrey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2007-10-30 Thread Frank Seidel
Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 04:42:34 schrieb John E. Perry: Thinking I'd messed up the KPowersave configuration somehow, I opened it to reconfigure it. _Everything_ is now grayed out. I can't do anything. Recalling the recent comment that 10.3 uses PM, I started reading up to try fixing

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2007-10-29 Thread Andreas
Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2007 20:14:18 schrieb Randall R Schulz: It's all very complicated. After some more digging I found that the powermanagement is now done by hal, and not only does hal reject a regular user, but stand-by and suspend-to-disk do not work anymore on my computer. I am

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2007-10-29 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
See the thread Suspend to swap replacement on 10.3 for Thinkpad T41. Powermanagement is now down by the pm utilities. pm-hibernate does suspend to disk and pm-suspend does suspend to RAM fine on my Thinkpad T41. HTH, Jeffrey Quoting Andreas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Sonntag, 28. Oktober 2007

[opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2007-10-28 Thread Andreas
I am sure it is something very obvious, yet I can't seem to find a way to configure the powermanagement in openSUSE 10.3. YaST is missing the power-management module and in KPowersave all options are 'greyed out'. Any pointers? -- Gruß Andreas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [opensuse] 10.3 and powermanagement

2007-10-28 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Sunday 28 October 2007 19:55, Andreas wrote: I am sure it is something very obvious, yet I can't seem to find a way to configure the powermanagement in openSUSE 10.3. YaST is missing the power-management module and in KPowersave all options are 'greyed out'. Any pointers? What hardware