pm-utils-1.4.1

Introduction to Power Management Utilities

The Power Management Utilities is a small collection of scripts to suspend and hibernate computer that can be used to run user supplied scripts on suspend and resume.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.7 platform.

Package Information

Power Management Utilities Dependencies

Optional

xmlto-0.0.26 (to generate man pages)

Optional (runtime)

Hdparm-9.45, Wireless Tools-29, ethtool and vbetool

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/pm-utils

Installation of Power Management Utilities

Install Power Management Utilities by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/pm-utils-1.4.1 &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you don't have xmlto-0.0.26 installed, copy pregenerated man pages:

install -v -m644 man/*.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &&
install -v -m644 man/*.8 /usr/share/man/man8 &&
ln -sv pm-action.8 /usr/share/man/man8/pm-suspend.8 &&
ln -sv pm-action.8 /usr/share/man/man8/pm-hibernate.8 &&
ln -sv pm-action.8 /usr/share/man/man8/pm-suspend-hybrid.8

Configuring Power Management Utilities

Suspend or resume functionality can be easily modified by installing files into the /etc/pm/sleep.d directory. These files, known as hooks, are run when the system is put into a sleep state or resumed. Default hooks are located in /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d, and user hooks should be put in /etc/pm/sleep.d. See the pm-action(8) man page for more information.

In order to use hibernation with GRUB and a swap partition, you need to add kernel parameter resume=swap_partition (i.e. resume=/dev/sda1) to the kernel line in the /boot/grub/grub.cfg configuration file.

Contents

Installed Programs: on_ac_power, pm-hibernate, pm-is-supported, pm-powersave, pm-suspend and pm-suspend-hybrid
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /etc/pm, /usr/lib/pm-utils and /usr/share/doc/pm-utils-1.4.1

Short Descriptions

on_ac_power

is a script that determines whether the system is running on AC power (rather than a battery).

pm-hibernate

is a symlink to pm-action script that puts the computer into hibernate mode (the system is fully powered off and system state is saved to disk).

pm-is-supported

is a script that checks whether power management features such as suspend and hibernate are supported.

pm-powersave

is a script that puts the computer into powersaving (low power) mode.

pm-suspend

is a symlink to pm-action script that puts the computer into suspend mode (most devices are shut down and system state is saved in RAM).

pm-suspend-hybrid

is a symlink to pm-action script that puts the computer into hybrid-suspend mode (the system does everything it needs to hibernate, but suspends instead of shutting down).

Last updated on 2013-07-10 14:18:46 +0200