[kde-freebsd] KDE and Grub

[Hannes]

Am Sonntag, 17. Mai 2009 09:29:49 schrieb 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?

I have no suspend on my Intel Notebook.

> 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.

This used to work in kde3-time on FreeBSD.

Regards,
Hannes