Re: pmud & pbbuttonsd confilct in sarge-testing ?
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 09:53:53PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:10:36AM +0200, Sven Luther said
> > On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 05:59:08PM +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote:
> > > Am Sonntag, 4. Juli 2004 06:23 schrieb Sean Schertell:
> > > > I think pbuttonsd obsoletes pmud -- because it also provides power mgmt
> > > > including sleep/wake, etc.
> > >
> > > Thats correct.
> > >
> > > In fact if pbbuttonsd is forced to work in cooperative mode (which is still
> > > possible but not recommended) pbbuttonsd take only limited control over the
> > > powermanagement functions because pmud doesn't care about other programs
> > > which may do a better job. In this case pbbuttonsd step back to keep systems
> > > stability. A lot of nice functions have to disabled by pbbuttonsd because
> > > pmud beside others claims the cover control and power emergency control.
> >
> > I think pbutton removes the nice gnome applet that is based on pmud
> > though. Is there a similar gnome applet for pbuttons ?
>
> Once I load the apm_emu module, the gnome battery applet thing works
> fine for me: AC status and the coloured battery/percent-o-meter show
> just what they should. Well, except the 'suspend' option doesn't work
> ;-)
Well, but apt-get install pbuttonsd or whatever it is called wants to
remove it, so there is something more of integration needed.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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