ACPI help

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
	I tried it both quoted and unquoted.

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:

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CH> Jacob,
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CH> When you tried putting the entire strings in, did you quote them
CH> or escape the spaces?
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CH> Chuck
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CH> On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Jacob Schmude wrote:
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CH> > Hi all
CH> >  	Well, I got linux on my new laptop and got all the hardware
CH> > working. I wound up putting slackware on and not Fedora, since the
CH> > performance of Fedora on the laptop was extremely slow and I couldn't
CH> > figure out why. Yes, I checked the CPU frequency scaling governors and
CH> > they were set to performance, but it still ran slow. Anyway, I got slack
CH> > on and it's running fine, except for ACPI. I can't get the regexp for some
CH> > of my events correct. What I want to do is for it to start laptop mode
CH> > when the AC adapter is unplugged, and to stop laptop mode when the AC is
CH> > plugged in. I've gotten it partially working--it will stop laptop mode
CH> > when the AC is plugged in. However, I can't seem to get it to start laptop
CH> > mode when the AC is unplugged. The relevant lines from my
CH> > /etc/acpi/events/events.conf are:
CH> > event=ac_adapter.*00
CH> > action=/usr/local/bin/startlt
CH> > event=ac_adapter.*01
CH> > action=/usr/local/bin/stoplt
CH> >  	Startlt and stoplt are custom scripts I've written to turn on
CH> > laptop mode and set the correct HD parameters for standby and such, and to
CH> > adjust the powersave governors correctly. It's the first event that
CH> > doesn't work, and I'm stuck as to why. I've tried everything I could think
CH> > of, including putting the entire text of the relevant events in--but if I
CH> > do that then none of them work. events.conf is a file I created to
CH> > override slackware's default acpi-handler.sh script, which doesn't work
CH> > properly on my machine. Can anyone help here? The complete text for both
CH> > events is:
CH> > ac_adapter AC 00000080 00000000
CH> > ac_adapter AC 00000080 00000001
CH> >  	The first event is what is generated when the AC is unplugged, the
CH> > second is what is generated when it's plugged in. The only thing different
CH> > about them is the final digit, which is what I'm trying to work with. Can
CH> > anyone help with this? If worse comes to worse, I'll use APM, but I'm not
CH> > sure how good this laptop's APM support is as it was primarily designed
CH> > for ACPI.
CH> > THX
CH> >
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