[Dextrose] automatic idle-suspend

[Paul Fox]

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?

paul

 > 
 > Ah, maybe I see the problem: there's no UI in GNOME to control
 > autosuspend.
 > 
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 >    // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
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 > 

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