[TuxOnIce-users] how dirty is it?

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi Lance.

On 06/09/10 13:25, lance lassetter wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 08:19 +0800, Aaron Lewis wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>>
>>> I am new to the list.
>>>
>>> Just how dirty is it to remove pm-utils from a Gentoo Gnome installation
>>> and symlink /usr/sbin/hibernate to /usr/sbin/pm-hibernate ?
>>>
>>
>> I'm also on gentoo , no need i think.
>>
>> * qlist  pm-utils| grep tux
>> /usr/lib/pm-utils/module.d/tuxonice
>>
>> See it's a module , so echo *anything* you like to /sys filesystem or /proc.
>>
>> If you would like to remove pm-hibernate , you need to modify the structure of
>> arguments handling ( wrong args will make /usr/bin/hibernate exit )
>>
>> Do a custom hack on tuxoince module will be fine , i think.
>>
>> Also , search old archives about this topic if possible , it's discussed long
>> time ago.
>>
>> BTW: FBSplash works fine , only key combinations ( like r to enable reboot ,
>> escape to cancel .. ) fails , that's problem with fbsplash , bootsplash wasn't
>> supported on gentoo maybe.
>
> Yeah.  I went ahead and just installed pm-utils to be gnome compliant.
> My only question is with the tuxonice script/module in pm-utils why
> don't they do S4 and do shutdown instead?

It shouldn't matter much ACPI state you enter after writing the image - 
S4 might enable some features that S0 doesn't (wake on lan or such 
like), but it's not a huge difference.

Regards,

Nigel