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I have a Dell laptop and i use the KDEMod with the kpowersave... but I was wondering to change to gnome.... the problem is kpowersave is well much better than gnome-power-manager..
So here is the sort of question: Can I use kpowersave on gnome?
Even though I know I can... but what are the pro and cons of it? Is it going to work ok?
The main problem of gnome-power-manager is regarding to the cpufrequency and the schemes wich are not present and it does make a lot of difference for a laptop.... It's known also that there is the gnome applet for the cpufreq controlling, but it's just horrible... it doesn't integrate with the powermanagement it don't make the minimal assumption to change the cpu governor to powersave when the AC is disconected.... so why do people lose time creating such a thing and not trying to improve the other one that has half way done... This all makes me believe that gnome-powermanagement is just broken in too many pices and these are not integrated.
But I could be wrong... is it possible to have a good powermanagement controller for gnome...
My main reason here is that gnome saves my video card which is an ATI Xpress 1150 ( I mean on KDEmod I get 1890 FPS on fglrx for example, but on Gnome I got 2100 FPS on glxgears with the exactly same config)
Does anyone has an opinion?
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That's a question bothering me right now as well.
I'd love to use Gnome (or maybe XFCE), because the bulk of apps I use on a daily basis was written for GTK+. I like Firefox over Konqueror, Evolution over KMail (better integrated into the system as well!) and OOo over KOffice, and so on...
But on my Dell Inspiron 6400 Gnome just isn't usable, because powersave functionality simply doesn't work at all
Gnome will send my laptop to suspend alright. But it won't resume. CPU and HDD start, LEDs come up, but the screen stays blank (although it does sort of "light up"). There's no reaction to Ctrl-Alt-F1-7 or Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, I have power down the computer (by holding down the power key) and have to reboot. There's really no error message in the logs, at least I couldn't find it.
I've tried using the pm-utils-opensuse, but that didn't work either (plus uswsusp kept bugging me that it couldn't find the resume device even though I edited the suspend.conf to point to my swap partition). Instead of going into suspend, it would just lock the screen.
KLaptop does in fact suspend and resume, and it comes with CPU throttling to boot (which will give me another half hour to hour of battery life). But it's a KDE daemon. I'd love to have the same functionality under Gnome, but I don't really know how I should do it. I don't necessarily need the KLaptop daemon, but I'd like something that will allow me to suspend and resume, and soemthing that automatically throttles the CPU when I'm running on battery. And if there's no "easy'ish" solution for GTK+ /Gnome, I'd ask the same question as the OP...
Is there any way to get the KLaptop daemon to run under Gnome /XFCE?
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Just for the record... I think that gnome powermanagement uses HAL, and so your problem can be in HAL, but klaptop uses the pm-utils to thing that. Dispite that I think KDE is more complete some how, one example is Amarok which is the best, but it's really annoying to use konqueror sometimes and I do use lots of CAAD softwares on my pc and the saving of the RAM that GNOME does for a common user is nothing but for someone like me with a video card with shared memory it does have difference.
Just why does the GNU Project don't implement something better than the incomplete gnome-power-manager.... This is one of the why's windows still takes place on the market share...
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