This is trivially easy, just give the user some hints as to why this isn't enabled by default rather than silently fail. Also, perhaps this should be enabled for the netbook-remix variant, since these all use more modern hardware?
Change this in /etc/init.d/laptop-mode: # FIXME: this shouldn't be configured there if [ -f /etc/default/acpi-support ]; then . /etc/default/acpi-support; fi to this: # FIXME: this shouldn't be configured there if [ -f /etc/default/acpi-support ]; then . /etc/default/acpi-support; echo "You need to set ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE=true in /etc/default/acpi-support" fi -- Laptop mode fails to start without saying why https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95247 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs