Please don't enable shutdown by default...

Andrew Stevens pkg-vdr-dvb-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:18:35 +0000


Dear debian-vdr team,

I really appreciate the work its really coming on.

BUT please please do NOT activate the automatic inactivity shutdown
in VDR by default in the package. Can you imagine how long it took me to 
figure out the cause of the mysterious crashes  (DVB driver does not always
exist cleanly on my hardware) after 120 minutes of my A/V computer.

By coincidence I had upgraded KDE at the same time.  The poor KDE power 
management and screen saver control panel people must have glowing ears by 
now. I at first suspect a broken power management configuration.

If you do want to select this at install time it should be the NOT-default 
option to a user query so it is not a surprise.


cheers,

	Andrew