FS#7651 - pm-utils replacing powersave

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Denis Martinez (denis) - Monday, 23 July 2007, 12:21 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 25 August 2007, 10:09 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.05 Duke
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

powersaved was replaced by pm-utils some time ago.
However, I see no reason for depreciating powersave.

Unlike pm-utils, powersave is a complete power manager which manages:
CPU, disk, video, battery profiles..
Afaik pm-utils does none of those, it does suspend/hibernate.

Please remove "replaces" in pm-utils.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Saturday, 25 August 2007, 10:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  powersave is obsolete
Comment by Denis Martinez (denis) - Monday, 30 July 2007, 15:37 GMT
Ok, I did a little research about this and
I found that powersave was going to be replaced by hal + pm-utils

However, there is no startup script in /etc/rc.d,
no documentation (no howto, nothing in the wiki, not even an install note)
I was unable to get it to work, and didn't find any help on google...

So I'm just going to keep using powersave until the things get better
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 30 July 2007, 15:46 GMT
powersaved doesn't manage so many things. It's an extension to hal and contains some suspend/resume utilities, and manages your cpufreq settings. The only reason to run it as a daemon is that it allows you to setup cpufreq on startup and to allow hal to call powersaved to suspend your system. For the rest, there's no special things in it that aren't provided by pm-utils.
The latest version upstream available actually depends on pm-utils, so the only thing left in powersaved is the setup of cpufreq on bootup, which can be done from rc.local also (I load my cpufreq module by hand and set governour on both cores with a line in rc.local to achieve the same).
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 30 July 2007, 16:52 GMT
I just load my cpufreq module in MODULES in rc.conf and use cpufrequtils. *shrugs*

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