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, [...]
Archive of posts tagged ACPI
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.
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
