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

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> > 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.

Right.

> Don't you need a special daemon which puts the PC into sleep mode?

I don't think so.  I think it's done with the kernel & the BIOS.

On my Redhat system, where HDD spin-down work, I have a process:
root         3     1  0 Aug08 ?        00:00:00 [kapmd]

But there is no binary for kapmd, so I think it's a kernel process.

> Lets see if there's a program where we can turn that stuff off during 
> system bootup.

I haven't looked for a long time, but there used to be a lot of
selections you could make in the kernel config about what worked.

I'm starting to wonder if this is a bad idea to turn on.
Especially since APM is being replaced with ACPI, and Linux 
currently has poor support for ACPI.

 - BS