Comment 6 for bug 108611

I'm marking this as confirmed, as this is a problem, but it could just as easily be marked rejected (more or less working by design), because the underlying design is problematic. Of course rejecting it would simultaneously require a blueprint be opened to cover the following....

The problem is that we have multiple conflicting ACPI event management tools on laptops. The proper set includes HAL and PMI, which are used by Gnome (comments about limited power management capabilities in gnome withheld), and these apply to all machines.

The conflicting set is laptop-mode tools and various ACPI event scripts, which - by design - are not used when Gnome is running (scripts contain checks to silently exit and let Gnome handle policy).

This is counter to what the user expects. The correct things to do are all of:

a) provide script-level PMI controls so that users can suspend/resume/etc. from scripts if they so choose,

b) remove the laptop-mode and other tools obsoleted by PMI and its brethren, and

c) give Gnome more configurability, so users can make their machines behave as expected.

That's a lot for one report. Unfortunately, I am no longer able to triage, so that's the best I can do with this. Hopefully someone else can pick this up and make the right things happen.