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author | Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com> | 2006-04-26 22:00:21 +0000 |
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committer | Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com> | 2006-04-26 22:00:21 +0000 |
commit | f541984ba988aae495aac2044e56bdb400410bd2 (patch) | |
tree | 9d43167bff2bd66728fa058695865836f9e40cc2 /README | |
parent | 8e2395b91c02b0c028d7dd0cadbdfbce9c85faac (diff) |
2006-04-26 Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
* Add README
* Add AUTHORS
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@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +=== pm-utils === + +What is pm-utils? + +* Provides simple shell command line tools to suspend and hibernate computer +that can be used to run vendor or distro supplied scripts on suspend and resume. + +Why do we need it? + +* As all the main distros are re-implimenting the same thing, over and over, to +do something that's really quite trivial. +Having the common locations for stuff means that software and hardware vendors +can just install one file to do the clever stuff. + +* Distros can easily add/remove functionality by installing/removing one +file into the hooks directory, for example: + +- enabling and disabling standby LED's on laptop hardware +- enabling suspend GUI's like suspend2 +- re-enabling video +- starting and stopping services that can't cope with suspending +- re-syncing the time with ntp +- removing and modprobing modules when needed +- setting grub to be the default target for a hibernate-resume +- other wacky things that need doing on specific systems |