Bug 439077

Summary: Please do not enforce energy star compliance on openSUSE
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: Carlos Robinson <carlos.e.r>
Component: UsabilityAssignee: Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P3 - Medium    
Version: Factory   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i686   
OS: SUSE Other   
Whiteboard: gnome-usability,gnomeup-gnome-power-manager
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Description Carlos Robinson 2008-10-26 19:33:49 UTC 
OS: 11.1 Beta 3 - not in the list above


In Gnome, the new default (which can not be changed, Bug 439075) is to hibernate the machine after 30 minutes. Bug 439018 says that this is due to mandatory energy star compliance. Please notice that this compliance does not apply to openSUSE, but only to your certified, hardware+software, machines. OpenSUSE is not certified, and you don't sell it on machines preinstalled and certified, AFAIK. 

It applies to "All products, except for desktop-derived servers" (p 11, sect 3) -- and you are forcing this on openSUSE desktop servers, like my machine.

And openSUSE does not have the mandatory information label in the machine:

***
Either option must at least include the following information:

• Notice that the computer has been shipped enabled for power
management and what the time settings are; and
• How to properly wake the computer from Sleep mode;
***

You can not force hibernation on not certified machines, as you don't know if the machine will survive. This applies only to machines sold complete, hardware and software, certified: ie, SLES or SLES, not openSUSE.

 http://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/product_specs/program_reqs/Computer_Spec_Final.pdf


I have been pointed to all the above info by another user via email.

Thanks.
Comment 1 Rodrigo Moya 2008-10-31 10:28:56 UTC 
Holger, so is it ok to just patch the GConf schemas for SLE?
Comment 2 Holger Macht 2008-10-31 10:57:43 UTC 
We're having exactly the same discussion in bug 439018. So I think this is a dup.

And please note, I don't think a ever stated that is is required because otherwise we're not Energy Star compliant. We are not, and will never be for _every_ machine, because it depends on the hardware. We just try to prepare everything as good as we can.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 439018 ***