The laptop-mode mode switching annoyances are largely due to the fact that Ubuntu tries to control laptop mode from acpi-support, and has patched all of the detection logic out of laptop-mode-tools, and AFAICT for no reason other than "NIH". The upstream laptop-mode-tools package, and the Debian package (full disclosure: both of which I maintain) do not suffer from the mentioned defects at all.
I'm actually quite annoyed about the way Ubuntu deals with laptop mode. It basically breaks all of the controls in the laptop-mode.conf file, but leaves them in there to give the illusion that it works. In the meanwhile, the acpi-support package has even been backported to Debian, where it now provides the illusion that it can disable laptop mode, which it can't since the "all your laptop mode control all belong to acpi-support" patches aren't in the Debian version of laptop-mode-tools. (I put some of those patches in there briefly for the last week, only to get surprised reactions from people whose formerly working laptop mode configuration was suddenly broken. I'm taking them out again.) -- power management on ipw2200 and ipw3945 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80980 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
