Impacts of disabling Automatic Power Management

[Samuel Greenfeld]

Disabling suspend during collaboration was discussed a year ago, but as far
as I know this has not made it into any 11.3.x build:
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10363

There might be a few 10.x.x builds with this change but I would have to
research this to confirm one way or another.


I could easily see USB GSM modems being unhappy about repeatedly losing
power, as my USB CDMA modem resets itself every time that happens.  This
then requires it to reacquire a connection to the tower, reset the
computer's PPP link to the modem, etc.  This may require the XO to stay
powered on via a usb-inhibits rule, network manager script, or Sugar's
GSM/NM monitor whenever the connection is active.

But unless the GSM/3G connection is being used to contact a school or other
collaboration server I think these are two independent problems.


On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Richard A. Smith <richard at laptop.org> wrote:

> On 02/04/2012 12:28 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
>
>  Let's _not_ include it in the development builds, so developers and
>>> testers suffer (and fix).
>>>
>>> end users need not suffer.
>>>
>>
>> +1 for this. This is negatively impacting classrooms. Teachers are
>> shying away from using collaboration. We don't have time to wait for a
>> 'perfect' solution.
>>
>
> I wasn't suggesting that we don't come up with a workaround for your
> current problem.  I was commenting that adding a hook into sugars API that
> globally disables suspend while collaboration is active is headed in the
> wrong direction.
>
>
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