UPS support into the Integrated Power Management
We can get a better integrated support for USB UPSs on Ubuntu than Windows OnNow or Mac OS X PowerManagement, simply at a cost of ~ 130 Kb (package).
The software exists and is already available in Ubuntu: http://
For the moment, the features level is the same as Windows/OS X (ie no UPS poweroff), but the manufacturers support is wider. And it should greatly evolve by the release of Jaunty.
The hard point is that nut-hal-drivers must be installed by default (so entering "main"), without any package (ubuntu-minimal, and the like) depending on it since it conflicts with the classic NUT packages. And we must allow users to install the classic NUT to access its bonus features...
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Started
- Approver:
- Malcolm Yates
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Arnaud Quette
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Arnaud Quette
- Definition:
- Review
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Beta Available
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Arnaud Quette
- Completed by
Whiteboard
- nut-hal-drivers 2.2.2 is Jaunty main, and has a good support (showing data in Gnome Power Manager for all NUT USB UPS supported)
- DeviceKit-power will be the new target for upstream development (target: NUT 2.4), though the HAL support will still be provided upstream
