ACPI help

[Jayson Smith]

Hi,
On a related subject.  I've got a Gentoo box which supports ACPI.  I've
enabled it in the 2.6.6 kernel, but when something happens E.G. I hit the
power button, the machine just shuts down right away like there's no
acpi-aware stuff there, and doesn't let Linux do anything about it.  Whereas
for instance, in Windows, if you hit the power button Windows takes over and
shuts down the system or at least that's what's supposed to happen.  Of
course, sometimes when Windows is in a lockdown state the button does
absolutely nothing E.G. Windows says it wants to handle the button but then
doesn't do anything about it.
So what do I need to do to get ACPI working?
Thanks,
Jayson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob Schmude" <jschmude at adelphia.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 5:20 PM
Subject: ACPI help


> Hi all
>   Well, I got linux on my new laptop and got all the hardware
> working. I wound up putting slackware on and not Fedora, since the
> performance of Fedora on the laptop was extremely slow and I couldn't
> figure out why. Yes, I checked the CPU frequency scaling governors and
> they were set to performance, but it still ran slow. Anyway, I got slack
> on and it's running fine, except for ACPI. I can't get the regexp for some
> of my events correct. What I want to do is for it to start laptop mode
> when the AC adapter is unplugged, and to stop laptop mode when the AC is
> plugged in. I've gotten it partially working--it will stop laptop mode
> when the AC is plugged in. However, I can't seem to get it to start laptop
> mode when the AC is unplugged. The relevant lines from my
> /etc/acpi/events/events.conf are:
> event=ac_adapter.*00
> action=/usr/local/bin/startlt
> event=ac_adapter.*01
> action=/usr/local/bin/stoplt
>   Startlt and stoplt are custom scripts I've written to turn on
> laptop mode and set the correct HD parameters for standby and such, and to
> adjust the powersave governors correctly. It's the first event that
> doesn't work, and I'm stuck as to why. I've tried everything I could think
> of, including putting the entire text of the relevant events in--but if I
> do that then none of them work. events.conf is a file I created to
> override slackware's default acpi-handler.sh script, which doesn't work
> properly on my machine. Can anyone help here? The complete text for both
> events is:
> ac_adapter AC 00000080 00000000
> ac_adapter AC 00000080 00000001
>   The first event is what is generated when the AC is unplugged, the
> second is what is generated when it's plugged in. The only thing different
> about them is the final digit, which is what I'm trying to work with. Can
> anyone help with this? If worse comes to worse, I'll use APM, but I'm not
> sure how good this laptop's APM support is as it was primarily designed
> for ACPI.
> THX
>
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