pm-utils 1.3.0-rc1 available to testing (original) (raw)
Victor Lowther victor.lowther at gmail.com
Sat Dec 5 20:24:47 PST 2009
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PM-utils 1.3.0-rc1 is not available for testing. Notable changes from the pm-utils 1.2 series:
We now have a suspend-hybrid method that does not rely on tuxonice or userspace suspend/resume. It initially suspends the box, and sets an alarm to wake up in 15 minutes. If the system is not resumed before the alarm goes off, it will wake up and hibernate. You should be sure hibernate works before using this mode -- if the system fails to hibernate, it will not go back to sleep on its own (working around this involves better reporting from the kernel about the last sleep state -- I have a patch forthcoming for that), and if you cannot resume from hibernate you may as well have not even tried to hibernate in the first place.
pm-utils can now optionally profile the hooks as they run to see which ones are taking an unusual amount of time. See README.debugging for more information.
pm-utils has its own quirk database that does not rely on HAL. This shold enable a complete halsectomy without compromising suspend/resume functionality on systems that require quirks. pm-utils ships with an import-fdi-quirkdb utility that will translate the video .fdi quirks into the native format, but that is just a stopgap solution until HAL goes away for good, at which point pm-utils will take over maintenance of the quirk database. A pretranslated quirk database is also available, which should be extracted into /usr/lib/pm-utils. See README.native-quirk-db for more details.
Files for this release can be downloaded from: http://pm-utils.freedesktop.org/releases/pm-utils-1.3.0-rc1.tar.gz http://pm-utils.freedesktop.org/releases/pm-quirks-20091205.tar.gz
Testing and feedback is welcome, especially on systems that rely on quirks to suspend and resume properly -- my test systems are regrettably quirk free. :)
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