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GNOME Power Manager project gets underway

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2005-03-24 04:14. GNOME System Tools

GNOME Power Manager is a GNOME session daemon that acts as a policy agent on top of the Project Utopia stack, which includes the kernel, hotplug, udev, and HAL. GNOME Power Manager listens for HAL events and responds with user-configurable reactions. Currently it supports UPS's, laptop batteries and AC adaptors. Its goal is to be architecture neutral and free of polling and other hacks.

Linux power management on laptops sucks. Project Utopia is all about making things "Just Work" and that's how power-management should be.

The site can be found here with lots of screenshots.

There is a CVS repository available with the latest and greatest code.

Note: The project is at alpha status and at this stage I’m looking for preliminary feedback on initial concepts, and people’s views on how this should be done.

Bit simplistic don't you think?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-03-25 18:42.

Fact is acpi on linux is fairly broken and not well supported at all. The x86 world went acpi over 5 years ago and even now acpi on linux especially for notebooks just doesn't work well. I say this btw as someone who actually uses linux on a notebook. Now as the grandparent probably isn't aware its broken because each hardware manu feels free to do whatever the hell they want with regard to their own acpi implementation. There is no standard acpi code which will work perfectly with each vendors products.

I give mucho credit to the guys out there trying to deal with buggy acpi implementations. I can't even begin to understand how hard they've had it. Fact is IF it was easy to do hackers would have done it many years ago.

So while the grandparent probably could have stated things better he really has a valid point. Your point about poking around in /proc to solve the problem comes of as some sort of joke because if its notebook as the person stated its doubtful its that easy. And when his girlfriend wakes the machine up and networking isn't working then what? And when the fans don't operate properly then what?

btw people should specifiy that when they say "power management has always been there" they mean APM and not a working acpi implementation.

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