Submitted by Tony Houghton on Tue, 2007-04-24 14:19.
If I disable the Restricted Drivers Manager in Startup Programs the Gnome logout button and the laptop's power button stop working. OTOH if I try to run the RDM manually from the menu it just complains that I haven't got the linux-restricted-modules package for my kernel installed. I think it's just some way of managing 3rd party binary modules, and my laptop doesn't need any. Perhaps some laptops need them to do certain types of suspend or respond to custom buttons etc, hence the interaction with the Logout button.
Restricted Drivers Manager
If I disable the Restricted Drivers Manager in Startup Programs the Gnome logout button and the laptop's power button stop working. OTOH if I try to run the RDM manually from the menu it just complains that I haven't got the linux-restricted-modules package for my kernel installed. I think it's just some way of managing 3rd party binary modules, and my laptop doesn't need any. Perhaps some laptops need them to do certain types of suspend or respond to custom buttons etc, hence the interaction with the Logout button.