On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:26:01 +0100
Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 05:01:49PM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> 
> > You are right of course. This of course means that the matching as done know
> > is broken. 
> 
> It is "incomplete" as i would put it :-)
> 
> > I haven't tried to see some structure in the whitelist, but isn't there a
> > pattern that matches with the video cards?
> 
> No. We only match for DMI info, not for PCI IDs.

Yes, I know. This has probably been discussed ages ago, but I meant to ask if
we can't distill something like
- machines with graphics chipset X from nvidia need FOO|BAR
- those with chipset Y from ATI need BAR

> > Stefan, do you remember if hal was going the same route in matching? 
> 
> HAL can match on almost anything in its FDI files IIUC. I think you even could
> match on "X driver version foo.bar installed" or maybe "X is running"/"console
> is active".
> 
> Because HAL already has all these matching capabilities, i think it is the
> way to go, means: let HAL determine the needed options, pass them down
> to pm-utils and pm-utils then call s2ram/s2both with the appropriate command
> line to specify the workaround.

Yes. Only that it is a bit annoying that you need hal for something as lowlevel 
as
putting your machine to sleep.

grs TIm

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