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Tag Archives: ACPI

pm-utils instead of acpi-support ?

I had several issues with gnome-power-manager and acpi-support. Both are base on the acpid daemon for power management. Acpi-support is a convenient package of scripts to configure the power management. It is bundled in many distributions, including Ubuntu and Debian. The problem is that it does not cooperate very well with gnome-power-manager. As a result, [...]

Posted 05 October 2007 § Linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Solved : network-manager issue with ACPI hibernation

If you have a laptop, Network-Manager running and use ACPI to hibernate, look at this bug report and its nice tip : Editing /etc/default/acpi-support with this line : STOP_SERVICES=”networking” solved an old issue I used to have (and for which I wrote a dirty script with modprobe, dhclient, etc.

Posted 03 August 2007 § Desktop § Linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Battery power and Compiz

I decided to drop Compiz since I found out (thanks to the Powertop utility by Intel) that it was power monger. Result : Compiz : 3h30 Metacity : 5h00

Posted 20 May 2007 § Desktop § Linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,