[maemo-developers] Internet Tablet Power Management presentation from linux-pm summit 2007

[From: Igor Stoppa]

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:01 +0300, David Weinehall wrote:
> On ons, 2007-07-11 at 13:53 +0100, ext Andrew Flegg wrote:
> > On 7/11/07, David Weinehall <david.weinehall at nokia.com> wrote:
> > > On ons, 2007-07-11 at 13:28 +0100, ext Andrew Flegg wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This being reraised made me think about why, the other day, I *did*
> > > > want user suspend. Sometimes I just want a quick way to:
> > > >
> > > >   * Shut off all network connections.
> > > >   * Stop any noise (except configured alarms)
> > > >   * Have the screen locked
> > > >   * Not have to save my position
> > > >   * Be able to resume quickly
> > > >
> > > > This isn't "suspend" in a power sense, but in a use-case sense the
> > > > purpose is clear.
> > >
> > > So what you want is basically the "Soft Poweroff" option that's
> > > available [...] but with some minor tweaks?
> > 
> > Yes, exactly :-)
> > 
> > > I guess that can be arranged =)
> > 
> > Cool. Is it anything I could do straight off (I can also imagine a
> > control panel applet to allow users to customise[1] this "suspended"
> > state as Igor describes), or does it still dependent on some
> > relatively closed/unhookable infrastructure?
> 
> systemui.xml (sorry, not conf as I wrote in my previous e-mail) file
> supports callbacks, to get customised behaviour.
> 
> > [1] Sound on/off, network on/off being the obvious ones
> 
> I can make that configurable through /etc/mce/mce.ini

Sorry to ruin the party, but as Mike Baker wrote some time ago

(RFC: n800 suspend to ram)

the suspend wouldn't be "forever" anyway: Mike's script or something
similar should be used. So there _would_ be anyway some activity.

-- 
Cheers, Igor

Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa at nokia.com>
(Nokia Multimedia - CP - OSSO / Helsinki, Finland)