On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:26:05 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 00:13:33 +0000, > "Amadeus W.M." <amadeus84@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Does anyone have nut with hal working for a ups connected to a usb >> port? >> >> I'm trying to get mine to work, and the docs say gnome-power-manager >> should pop-up and let me see and do things, but nothing happened. >> >> lsusb sees the ups on a usb port, but that's all I can say. I believe >> no driver is being loaded for the ups, so probably hal (or maybe udev) >> is not doing what should be doing. I'll be happy to provide any >> necessary information to figure this out. I'd appreciate any clue from >> anyone who has this thing working under hal. > > I have a ups with a usb connection and am using nut to monitor it. I > haven't tested that it shuts down properly since rawhide switched to > upstart, but it did work previously. > > I don't use gnome-power-manager though. I hand edited the config files > and use the 'ups' service to watch it. usbhid-ups is the driver for most > usb ups's in rawhide. Before that it was newhidups. Thanks, I know all this. Nut is supposed to work with hal, automatically, for usb ups's, with no manual configuration, and I only wanted to know if it's really working and how can I test if mine is.
