[kde-freebsd] KDE and Grub

[David Naylor]

On Monday 11 May 2009 18:44:41 David Johnson wrote:
> On Monday 11 May 2009 07:26:51 am David Naylor wrote:
> > Also, since FreeBSD does support suspending [S3?] (and standby [S1?]) why
> > are these options not shown and where can they be enabled.
>
> Taking a quick look at the sources, the shutdown dialog gets this info from
> Solid (the hardware manager) which in turn gets its info from HAL. So I
> would look at HAL to see why it's not as FreeBSD friendly as it should be.

I had a look and it appears HAL should detect suspend states perfectly fine.  
My desktop doesn't support either so not suprising it isn't visible.  I 
didn't find anything in kdelibs to suggest discrimination against FreeBSD.  
HAL and KDE do not support standby (S1) states.  

Can anyone confirm they have suspend options available in KDE4?

On the grub topic, I could only find commented references to grub in kdelib 
(nothing in HAL) and the comments are not about reboot options.  Looking 
further into grub it appears to have only limited support for specifying the 
OS for next reboot.  This requires having the "default saved" line in 
menu.lst and (depending on your setup) "savedefault [0-9]" at the end of each 
boot option.  One could then use grub-set-default to change the next boot 
target (please make sure  grub-set-default is called at least once before 
rebooting, after installing grub otherwise grub fails to boot anything).  

This leads me to believe 'OS on next boot' options are a distro specific extra 
and can be achieved by alternative means.  

If anyone would like an example of how to do this just ask and I'll post an 
example.  

Regards
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 195 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part.
Url : http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/attachments/20090517/be4933ca/attachment.sig