[Nut-upsuser] MGE Ellipse Premium 1200 USB cable only works if plugged after boot

[Arnaud Quette]

2006/11/3, Pedro Côrte-Real <pedro at pedrocr.net>:
> On 11/2/06, Arnaud Quette <aquette.dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Oh, and with your udev rules it works fine.
> >
> > thanks for the feedback Pedro.
> > I'll have to make a new deb release to address this.
>
> Was it enough to diagnose the problem?

yes

> > As a side note, the long run approach will be using a new tool called
> > print_ups_list that will allow to generate hotplug, udev, hal, ...
> > files more easilly for packagers and users.
> > This tool is already available is the subversion branches/HAL, and
> > will be present in NUT 2.2.
>
> Sounds good.
>
> > Finally, I'm also monitoring Ubuntu's upstart and teardrop project
> > since these are really promising, and will also impact nut's init
> > script. And that point will also change a lot with NUT 2.2, and its
> > reworked configuration files and tools.
>
> Yes, upstart is very different from the current init systems. Nut
> could possibly integrate with upstart in providing power-fail events
> to be handled by the system allowing more complex behaviour than just
> calling shutdown. The focus of the next ubuntu release is on hardware
> suport for desktop/notebook/server so some more nut integration might
> make sense. Currently the packages are only in the universe
> repository.

I don't yet know much about upstart.
What is sure is that nut 2.2 will also integrate the basic HAL
integration to feed HAL. Any info / pointer about upstart and events
are also welcome, if you're interested in helping us a bit. But that's
a new upsdev thread...

Arnaud
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