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+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
+
+
+ <!-- Fill in your name for FIRSTNAME and SURNAME. -->
+ <!ENTITY dhfirstname "Michael">
+ <!ENTITY dhsurname "Biebl">
+ <!-- dhusername could also be set to "&firstname; &surname;". -->
+ <!ENTITY dhusername "Michael Biebl">
+ <!ENTITY dhemail "biebl@debian.org">
+ <!-- Please adjust the date whenever revising the manpage. -->
+ <!ENTITY dhdate "Mar 5, 2007">
+ <!-- SECTION should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection other parameters are
+ allowed: see man(7), man(1) and
+ http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Man-Page/q2.html. -->
+ <!ENTITY dhsection "8">
+ <!-- TITLE should be something like "User commands" or similar (see
+ http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Man-Page/q2.html). -->
+ <!ENTITY dhtitle "pm-utils User Manual">
+ <!ENTITY dhucpackage "pm-powersave">
+ <!ENTITY dhpackage "pm-powersave">
+
+ <!ENTITY debian "<productname>Debian</productname>">
+ <!ENTITY gnu "<acronym>GNU</acronym>">
+ <!ENTITY gpl "&gnu; <acronym>GPL</acronym>">
+]>
+
+<refentry>
+ <refentryinfo>
+ <title>&dhtitle;</title>
+ <productname>&dhpackage;</productname>
+ <date>&dhdate;</date>
+ <authorgroup>
+ <author>
+ <firstname>&dhfirstname;</firstname>
+ <surname>&dhsurname;</surname>
+ <contrib>Manpage author.</contrib>
+ <address>
+ <email>&dhemail;</email>
+ </address>
+ </author>
+ </authorgroup>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2007</year>
+ <holder>&dhusername;</holder>
+ </copyright>
+ <legalnotice>
+ <para>
+ This manual page was written for the &debian; system
+ (but may be used by others).
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+ document under the terms of the &gnu; General Public License,
+ Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by
+ the Free Software Foundation.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
+ License can be found
+ in <filename>file:///usr/share/common-licenses/GPL</filename>.
+ </para>
+ </legalnotice>
+ </refentryinfo>
+ <refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>&dhucpackage;</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>&dhsection;</manvolnum>
+ </refmeta>
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>&dhpackage;</refname>
+ <refpurpose>put your computer into low power mode</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>&dhpackage;</command>
+ <!-- These are several examples, how syntaxes could look -->
+ <arg choice="opt">
+ <group choice="req">
+ <arg choice="plain"><option>true</option></arg>
+ <arg choice="plain"><option>false</option></arg>
+ </group>
+ </arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+ <refsect1 id="description">
+ <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
+ <para>
+ This manual page documents briefly the <command>&dhpackage;</command>
+ command.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This manual page was written for the &debian; distribution
+ because the original program does not have a manual page.</para>
+ <para>
+ <command>&dhpackage;</command> can be used to set your system into
+ low power mode.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ One of the features that is enabled by <command>pm-powersave</command>
+ is the so-called Laptop Mode. A feature of the Linux kernel that allows
+ to spin down the hard drive for longer periods of time.
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 id="options">
+ <title>OPTIONS</title>
+ <variablelist>
+ <!-- Use the variablelist.term.separator and the
+ variablelist.term.break.after parameters to
+ control the term elements. -->
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>true</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Set the computer into low power mode to reduce energy consumption
+ and extend your laptop's battery life.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>false</option></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Turn off low power mode.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 id="files">
+ <title>FILES</title>
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><filename>/etc/pm/power.d/</filename></term>
+ <term><filename>/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ When you run <command>pm-powersave</command> it combines the
+ scripts in these two directories and executes them in sorted order.
+ If both directories contain a script with the same name, the one in
+ /etc/pm/power.d/ has a higher precedence and only
+ this one will be executed.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Therefore to disable a script from /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/
+ simply create an empty file in /etc/pm/power.d/ with the same
+ name and without the execute bit set.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 id="see_also">
+ <title>SEE ALSO</title>
+ <!-- In alpabetical order. -->
+ <para>
+ <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>pm-suspend</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry>,
+ <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>pm-hibernate</refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To learn more about Laptop Mode read
+ <filename>/usr/src/linux/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt</filename>.
+ </para>
+ </refsect1>
+</refentry>