Re: To enable the power management mechanism
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:32:13 +0000, T o n g wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:17:57 +0000, T o n g wrote:
>
>>> you shouldn't care about the backend used by "gnome-power-manager" . .
>>> .
>>
>>> Nowadays "gnome-power-manager" seems to use DBus instad of HAL,
>>> though.
>>
>> I build my system from scratch (debootstrap). Ok, let me specify
>> gnome-power-manager and the acpi-support package this time, removing
>> all detailed back-end supporting package from the list, hoping that the
>> Debian will figure out the rest for me.
>
> Of all the following acpi related packages, which ones do you have (or,
> which ones should I tell my debootstrap to install)?
>
> acpi-fakekey - tool to generate fake key events
> acpi-support-base -> scripts for handling base ACPI events such as the
> power button
> acpi-support - scripts for handling many ACPI events
> acpi - displays information on ACPI devices
> acpid - Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon
> acpitool - command line ACPI client
> acpidump - utilities to dump system's ACPI tables to an ASCII file
> laptop-detect - attempt to detect a laptop
> laptop-mode-tools - Tools for Power Savings based on battery/AC status
> sleepd - puts an inactive or low battery laptop to sleep
>From that list I only have installed "acpi" (in both, lenny and squeeze -
the latter installed inside a virtual machine-) and also the GNOME
environment.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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