[Nut-upsuser] Usbhip-ups going wild

[Arnaud Quette]

salut Antoine,

2009/7/31 Antoine Gatineau <antoine.gatineau at alcatel-lucent.com>

> I might ask a stupid question but isn't hal used to manage the UPS device
> and connection through udev rules?
> I though that hal was mostly usefull with usb...
>
> In the nut-hal document, it is said that HAL "allows NUT drivers to feed
> the
> HAL system, which will itself feeds
> applications such as the Gnome Power Manager"
> Does that mean hal is not used for managing the battery itself but sees the
> nut driver as a "pseudo real  battery"? In this case, indeed, I do not need
> it.
> I use upsmon for power management.
>

not at all. there are 2 approaches:
- the standard one, where you have a driver (usbhid-ups), upsd and upsmon.
udev only applies the device privileges rules.
- the Integrated Power Management approach, where NUT USB driver can feed
data to HAL (instead of upsd), replacing the basic USB/HID support in HAL.
Note that HAL is being superseded by DeviceKit and DeviceKit-power.
This approach will probably be abandonned...


> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Charles Lepple [mailto:clepple at gmail.com]
> Envoyé : vendredi 31 juillet 2009 15:08
> À : Antoine Gatineau
> Cc : 'nut-upsuser'
> Objet : Re: [Nut-upsuser] Usbhip-ups going wild
>
> On Jul 31, 2009, at 9:03 AM, Antoine Gatineau wrote:
>
> > Indeed, nut depends on some packages not the distribution itself.
> > You are surely right.
> >
> > Anyway, here are the links :
> > RHEL 4 : ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/EPEL/4ES/SRPMS/
> > nut-2.2.0-4.el4.src.rpm
> > RHEL 5 : nut-2.4.1 found only on this one
> > http://wolfy.fedorapeople.org/nut/SRPM/
>

use that one.
install it and edit the spec.
modifying --with-all by --with-usb should be sufficient.

cheers,
Arnaud
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