[Dextrose] automatic idle-suspend

[Paul Fox]

bernie wrote:
 > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 12:16 -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
 > > bernie wrote:
 > >  > [cc += dsd]
 > >  > 
 > >  > On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 07:04 -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
 > >  > > i assume someone decided autosuspend wasn't ready for prime time.  there's
 > >  > > certainly been a lot of evidence for that, surrounding networking, for
 > >  > > instance.  dsd may be responsible?
 > >  > 
 > >  > In my experience, autosuspend was way too buggy to be enabled by
 > >  > default, even on the XO-1.5. However, why disable it at the powerd
 > >  > level?
 > > 
 > > where else would you disable it?  perhaps i'm working at a disadvantage
 > > here, since i don't know what was in the referenced module.  i assumed
 > > it simply created the /etc/powerd/flags/inhibit-suspend file so that
 > > power management was off by default.  no?
 > 
 > Sorry, I was simply very confused. This is exactly what
 > modules/powerd/kspost.50.autosuspend.sh does:
 > 
 >   if [[ "$idle_suspend_enabled" != 1 ]]; then
 >           echo "touch /etc/powerd/flags/inhibit-suspend"
 >   fi
 > 
 > Can Sugar actually reset this flag? Perhaps we should change ownership
 > to user olpc.

the directory should be world writeable.  this is exactly how the
control panel inhibits suspend.

paul
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