https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=214272 Summary: Power Management YaST module changes due to pm redesign Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Alpha 5 plus Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: jsrain@novell.com ReportedBy: hmacht@novell.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com The following changes need to be made to the YaST2 power management module to correspond to the new power management architecture (see also FATE 301180) First window ============ Other Settings... (at the bottom) --------------------------------- The dialog 'Battery Warning...' can be completely dropped The dialog 'ACPI Settings...' can be completely dropped Dialog 'Suspend Permissions': Beginning with 10.2, we will have a new location to store such permissions. Until now, it is stored somewhere below /etc/sysconfig/powersave. The new method uses PolicyKit to specify and request privileges. PolicyKit has its configuration below /etc/PolicyKit/privileges.d/. There you can find the following files which are relevant: hal-power-hibernate (suspend to disk) hal-power-suspend (suspend to ram) hal-power-standby (standby) [Note: We are pretty early with using PolicyKit as privilege manager, but more and more applications will use it in future, so maybe the YaST team needs a generic mechanism to change privileges in future, something like sysconfig editor is now, or a helper utility for PolicyKit configuration] A so called privilege descriptor looks as follows: -- # This privilege specifies who is allowed to hibernate the system. [Privilege] RequiredPrivileges= SufficientPrivileges=desktop-console Allow=uid:root Deny= CanObtain=True CanGrant=True ObtainRequireRoot=False -- The only thing you need actually to know is the line 'SufficientPrivileges=desktop-console'. This means that any user which has the privilege desktop-console (aka is at a local console) possesses the specified privilege, in this case hal-power-hibernate. So to prevent a user to actually possess this privilege, the line has simply to be SufficientPrivileges= Root always possesses this privilege (Allow=uid:root). Edit schemes --> edit a particular scheme: ------------------------------------------ First window with Scheme name and description: - box labeled 'CPU' which contains CPU frequency scaling and throtting options can be removed Next window with 'Hard Disk' and 'Cooling Policy' options has to be kept for now. So you see that the only things which remain are actually the Suspend permissions, the harddisk settings and the Cooling policy. There might be new things like entering a password for an encrypted swap partition in the future, though, but there has to be more work to do in the base system at first. All other settings which vanished are now configurable with a client like gnome-power-manager or kpowersave. So to compensate this a little bit, I thought about adding a text explaining these changes in the first window. A text to say something like this: Beginning with openSUSE 10.2, a lot of configuration options have been removed from the Power Management YaST module. All vanished settings have to be configured with a graphical client such as gnome-power-manager or kpowersave. Thanks very much in advance, Holger -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.