[ltp] SuSE Pro 10.0

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On Tuesday 25 October 2005 11:53 pm, Andr=E9 Wyrwa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I've installed SuSE Linux 10.0 Evaluation (with Java and a few other
> > non-free packages) on my R50e (Mobile Celeron). Fan control and CPU
> > frequency scaling did not work (fan runs all the time). Seems that
> > powersaved does not use the /proc/acpi/ or /proc/acpi/ibm folder
> > correctly. I didn't try to remove powersaved and use cpufreqd and acp=
id
> > events instead. Did anyone try this? Any suggestions how I could make=
 it
> > work?
>
> i'm in the process of getting things to work in SUSE 10.
>
> So far i found that powersaved doesn't use anything at all. ;-) Ok,
> sreiously, powersaved uses
> 1) acpid to forward events only
> 2) /usr/lib/powersaved/scripts which is kind of equivalent to
> /etc/acpi/actions
> 3) /etc/sysconfig/powersave/ which holds some config files that tell
> powersaved how to deal with certain events
>
> 1) means that if you do things like intended, acpid does nothing but
> forward events to powersaved, which rules out all of the standard acpid
> mechanisms
>
> 2) means you can edit the scripts to use things in /proc/acpi/ibm/ . A
> standard script for ThinkPads is not provided, but you will find script=
s
> for SUSE 9.2 or 9.3, that can easily be updated to meet the
> specifications for SUSE 10 (read the powersaved documentation in
> /usr/share/packages/powersaved/ and compare the example scripts provide=
d ).
>
> 3) means that you can create your own ThinkPad specific script and
> configure powersaved to use it on certain events.
>
> I'm having a lot of trouble with it, though. First of all, the ac and
> battery modules of the SUSE 10 kernel interfere somehow with he ibm-acp=
i
> module. This is solved by making sure that they get loaded before
> ibm-acpi. Still, something seems to interfere. ibm-acpi works for me
> most of the time on boot up, but about 1 minute after the (GNOME) deskt=
op
> is up and running, no key events are triggered anymore. I doubt that
> powersaved has anything to do with that, since acpid doesn't even get
> the events. ibm-acpi seems to kind of hang or some other task is lockin=
g
> itself onto the keyboard and traps all keys. This impression arose
> mostly because of the fact that the same happens to /dev/nvram and tpb.
> tpb runs fine, but nothing is triggered.
>
> I suspect some deamon like GNOMEs hald-addon-acpi or some KDE daemon
> (even when running the GNOME desktop, SUSE still loads some basic KDE
> daemons) to interfere.
>
> Any ideas very much appreciated.
>
> Andr=E9.

Hi Andre

Sorry but I just have never had good luck with SuSE and my A30P. I always=
 get=20
better results with Mandrake although I have heard some of the other=20
distributions install too.

One of my major issues with SuSE appears to be that SuSE chooses packages=
 for=20
corporate America and I want entertainment America which I get best from =
a=20
French distribution,.

Would post URL for Mandrake but since I am not using the Thinkpad I do no=
t=20
have access to it but I am sure you can find it. You may expect to have=20
access to the latest Mandriva ISO in 2 weeks or so.=20

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