pm-utils has laptop-tools script which conflicts with laptop-mode-tools

Hi!
Adding the lines from the patch to /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/laptop-tools, but that's not working. On reboot the script overwrites the settings, and must unplug and plug in the power for the laptop mode to be enabled. Is it something else that i'm missing on this?

Regard
pelm

Hmm. That's strange. I've just reinstalled ubuntu, added these lines:

if [ -f "/etc/default/acpi-support" ] ; then
 . /etc/default/acpi-support
 if [ x$ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE = xtrue ] ; then
  echo "Laptop mode enabled, laptop-tools has nothing to do"
  exit 0
 fi
fi

and it worked for me (cat /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode shows 2).

Are you sure you have ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE=true in /etc/default/acpi-support?

Also don't forget to replace original laptop_mode_enable and laptop_mode_disable in /etc/acpi/power.sh with this:

function laptop_mode_enable {
    $LAPTOP_MODE auto
}

function laptop_mode_disable {
    $LAPTOP_MODE auto
}

The original is disabling laptop-mode in 5 seconds after you plug in to AC. :-/

Disk-idleing (aka "laptop-mode") and power states are quite separate things.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerManagement

Since ubuntu by default ships with laptop-mode-tools (thus disabled) which handles all the things associated with disk-idleing,

(like mount options, hdparm options, low battery exceptions, disk-idleing on AC when on the road, etc.)

just remove the "laptop-tools" script from pm-tools.

Package laptop-mode-tools needs to put scripts in that place if pm-tools are chosen to handle power states. #244844

Actually, you are quite right. Currently, all that /etc/acpi/power.sh and /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/laptop-tools do is perfectly replicable with identical settings in /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf (*_HD_POWERMGMT, *_HD_IDLE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS, *_RATIO in /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf, and ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE=true in /etc/default/acpi-support). Even the argument that laptop-mode is freezing some computers is no longer valid, because /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode is hard-coded to 2 on battery power, and you will get the same functionality as long as ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE_ON_AC=0 (which is default). So if there are problems people already should experience all that.

Also, /usr/sbin/laptop_mode already has all that state code commented out, so it doesn't need any force argument, WAS_ACTIVE is always 0 with the version shipped in Ubuntu, so it always reapplies its parameters.

This pm-utils bug is not a duplicate of the laptop-mode-tools bug #244844.

This bug is about pm-utils provocing a conflict.

The other is about adapting laptop-mode-tools to the pm-utils / acpi-support hooks.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerManagement#head-ab94c99627b86e9fbb29a09d3316178269c3e764 for the links between the separate bugs.

I just wanted to confirm that I was also affected by the problem and the patch together with instructions in wiki article (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerManagement#head-ab94c99627b86e9fbb29a09d3316178269c3e764) that ceg has cited, fixed the problem in Ubuntu 8.04.

I also want to underline the importance of activating laptop-mode tools nice and easily in Ubuntu - to me, laptop-mode-tools was the only thing why I gave Linux a try because it makes such a great heat reduction on my Dell D600 with well-known heat issue.

pm-utils no longer ships on laptop-mode script