Re: [gpm] Getting GPM to work well in Gentoo

[Alexander Skwar <listen alexander skwar name>]

Richard Hughes schrieb:
> On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 19:52 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I've got gnome-power-manager-2.14.3-r1 installed on Gentoo Linux
> > with Gnome 2.14.x and also on Ubuntu Linux 6.06.
> >
> > On Ubuntu, when I press the Power button, a dialog like shown on
> > http://www.myimg.de/?img=gnomelogoutc2e.gif pops up. I suppose that
> > this dialog is caused by GPM? Is it?
>
> Well, it asks the session to do a interactive shutdown, if that's what
> you mean.

No. I mean, if gpm is causing this nice and colorful dialog, as the
dialog on Gentoo doesn't look nearly as nice.

> > If so, what do I have to do, to get this dialog to show up in
> > Gentoo as well?
>
> Run a session as normal, have "lshal -m" running in a terminal and then
> press the power button.
>
> You should get something like this:
>
> acpi_PWRF condition ButtonPressed = power

I don't.

alexander blatt /dev/shm $ lshal -m

Start monitoring devicelist:
-------------------------------------------------


alexander blatt /etc/hibernate $ ps awux|grep hal
102       5616  0.0  0.4   4920  3408 ?        Ss   Sep18   0:03 /usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog
root      5619  0.0  0.1   2800  1032 ?        S    Sep18   0:00 hald-runner
102       5664  0.0  0.1   1900   776 ?        S    Sep18   0:00 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-acpi
102       5710  0.0  0.1   1900   784 ?        S    Sep18   0:00 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-keyboard
root      5928  0.0  0.0   1792   612 ?        S    Sep18   0:01 /usr/libexec/hald-addon-storage
1000     12557  0.0  0.1   2844  1004 pts/4    S+   00:57   0:00 lshal -m


> In which case HAL is working well. Assuming you have the power button
> policy to be "Ask me" you should then get the logout dialogue. Bear in
> mind that Ubuntu heavily patch the logout window, and it may look very
> different.

Ah. I didn't know that they patched the logout window. Thanks
for this information!

> Well, you want to remove the acpid actions (like you suggested) and then
> run:
>
> killall gnome-power-manager 
> gnome-power-manager --verbose --no-daemon
>
> and see why the power button policy is not being run.

Hm. Nothing happens when I press the power button.

> > Obviously, I missed something. But what did I miss?
>
> Should be something little like not installing the gconf schema
> properly. Or here's hoping. :-)

:)

Alexander Skwar
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