On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 10:42:11AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > By default, d-i will detect the precense of PCMCIA/PCCARD support and > install the pcmcia-cs package. Almost all machines with PCMCIA > support are laptops, and we should consider installing a few more > extra packacages for these machines. > > In Debian-Edu, we install pcmcia-cs and apmd by default when PCMCIA is > detected. > I suspect d-i would be better for laptop users if it installed apmd as > well. Perhaps ifplugd and noflushd are good packages to install as > well?? > apmd - Utilities for Advanced Power Management (APM) > ifplugd - A configuration daemon for ethernet devices > noflushd - allow idle hard disks to spin down > sleepd - puts a laptop to sleep during inactivity
apmd and sleepd is of little use in new laptops which don't support apm, only acpi -- Finn-Arne Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bzz.no/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
