From: mfrankow@hamline.edu (Mike Frankowski) Subject: Re: Notebooks, and powermgt, and ... Date: 21 Mar 1993 08:56:21 GMT
Erik Proper (erikp@cs.kun.nl) wrote:
: To my knowledge quite some people are trying to implement power
: managent facilities. Maybe we should start working on a standardised
: kernel extention for Notebooks (and other PC's!!). One of the problems
: will be that some chipsets are able to do the time-outs for the screen
: blanking and hard disk power down themselves, whereas for some chipsets
: this has to be done by the kernel itself.
: So for starters:
: who has what kind of powermanagent running??
: I believe Hans (see one of the earlier postings in this sequel) is
: trying to standardise this as well.
: Erik
: | Erik Proper (erikp@zeus.cs.kun.nl), University of Nijmegen, Department of
as are we in a way, first we want to get it working on his system, then we want
to add ifdefs for other chipsets to do the same thing, and add it to the
questionaire in 'make config' so that everyone can have a chance at it.
What we have seen so far is that powering off the disk works for the system
we have, and seems to work for others, and that is a start, but the biggy we
want to do is disk AND backlight. We would like to tie the backlight into
either a seperate area and use setterm to do it, or to tie it into the normal
screen blank routine and when the screen would normally blank, shut off the
backlight at the same time.
(we are also trying to work on X for this system also. C&T chipset, kind
of weird, as I have never seen it before, but we will manage :)
Mike (mfrankow@piper.hamline.edu)