HOWTO: install gnome power manager 2.8.0.1

[evs]

I just did this very thing this past weekend. Only I went all out and recompiled the .deb for Breezy, as well as all rebuilding the packages for all the upgraded dependencies from Dapper - dbus, hal, hal-device-manager, libhal, libhal-storage, libxres, and libxres-dev. But for some reason, clicking on suspend or hibernate in Gnome-Power-Manager does absolutely nothing. Clicking on suspend or hibernate from the log out screen works though, except I still can't resume properly (but at least it will suspend or hibernate the machine)! The updated power manager is definitely great though.

[quietglow]

Could someone post the command which allows the applet to control frequency governing?? I know its a super user command.

I had it running with and older version of the power manager and didn't make a note of how I did it.

[quietglow]

Nevermind! Ignore me please...

[quietglow]

FWIW, on my laptop (see sig) this particular Power Manager breaks my laptop's "lid close=hibernate" in acpi. Even though I set it to hibernate in the GUI, it just dims the screen. I'll look at the scripts in /etc/acpi to see what's up later.

[Pheonix]

This is now on 0.3.0 according to the web page. Anyone know how to get it installed on Ubuntu? Its currently a Tarball, but I've not a clue what to do with one of those! I've only just got the hand of dpkg

[manicka]

I've added this how-to, to the Ubuntu Document Storage Facility

[dmonney]

I tried it I got this messege

"status database area is locked by another process"

[Rob2687]

Close synaptic or whatever other package installer dealy you have running.

[BathroomNinja]

Nice! This will be on the wife's laptop tonight!

[thegnark]

hm... no system --> settings


am i missing something here?