Re: [Devil-linux-develop] [0.6Beta1] One more bug to report...

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:
>>>Agree, it should be added, IF it's not already there. (it may be)
>>>
>>>Keep in mind that even Redhat (and others) will NOT power off machines
>>>for certain types of hardware.  i.e. SMP boxes will not power off.
>>>I'm not sure what happens if you're running a SMP kernel on a UP PC.
>>
>>I was thinking for a while if we should enable the power management stuff.
>>Since you both agree with it, let's do it.
> 
> 
> Let's think about this a little harder.  Are other power management
> features going to cause us problems?  Causing a PC to go into sleep mode
> would be bad.  We need to be really careful on what features we select.
> 
> Can we turn on just the power off feature?

I definitely don't want any harddisk spin-downs, or sleep modes.
Don't you need a special daemon which puts the PC into sleep mode?
Lets see if there's a program where we can turn that stuff off during 
system bootup.

Heiko