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authorVictor Lowther <victor.lowther@gmail.com>2008-10-05 17:41:35 -0500
committerVictor Lowther <victor.lowther@gmail.com>2008-10-05 17:41:35 -0500
commit226914884fba883682fa60a40bebb3873ecde927 (patch)
tree1765d8563c2f0e63d1206e2be33f0638effad8d8 /man/pm-action.xml
parent7fa3f446439de179ae4d4bf73481e785b93fba34 (diff)
Document --auto-quirks and --save-quirks-as-fdi in the pm-action man page.
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diff --git a/man/pm-action.xml b/man/pm-action.xml
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@@ -170,12 +170,27 @@
<command>pm-suspend-hybrid</command> commands you can select which
quirks should be used.
</para>
-
+ <para>
+ If <command>pm-suspend</command>, <command>pm-hibernate</command>,
+ or <command>pm-suspend-hybrid</command> is invoked without any
+ commandline parameters, they will try to grab the correct quirks
+ from HAL if it is installed.
+ </para>
<variablelist>
<!-- Use the variablelist.term.separator and the
variablelist.term.break.after parameters to
control the term elements. -->
<varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--auto-quirks</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ This option will try to grab the correct quirks for this system
+ from HAL. If HAL is not present on the system and this parameter
+ is passed, suspending or hibernating the system will fail.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
<term><option>--quirk-dpms-on</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
@@ -278,6 +293,23 @@
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--save-quirks-as-fdi</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Save the quirks passed to <command>pm-suspend</command> or
+ <command>pm-suspend-hybrid</command> as an .fdi file that
+ is specific to this system. The file will be saved in
+ <filename>/etc/hal/fdi/information/99local-pm-utils-quirks.fdi</filename>.
+ This parameter will only save the actual quirks that were
+ used to sucessfully suspend/resume a system -- if you are
+ running proprietary video drivers or kernel modesetting
+ video drivers, you will generate a potentially incorrect
+ .fdi file.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
</variablelist>
</refsect1>