ACPI help

[Janina Sajka]

I have never had much luck with acpi. I turn it off in grub.conf these days. And, mine is a fairly new machine/bios, a Thinkpad T30.

Steve Holmes writes:
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> I'm kinda new to this APM/ACPI stuff but I own an older Hitachi laptop
> and can't really tell if ACPI will work on it.  About the only thing
> I've been successful at doing is leave APM support in the kernel and
> now if I type 'shutdown -h now', the machine will actually turn itself
> off.  Before doing that to the kernel, the machine would stay on and
> have to be manually turned off.  I cannot seem to adiquately monitor
> any APM events and apmd would consistantly cause my machine to lock up
> anyway.  I now run the machine without APMD and my machine never locks
> up any more.  I understand ACPI is much better than APM but I don't
> think older machines' hardware supports it.  Any good way to find out?
> I realy would like a way to just close the lid for example and have
> that auto-suspend or auto-standby the computer for me or simply have
> it power itself down gracefully.
> 
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 07:26:01PM -0400, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> > Hi
> > 	You need to have acpid installed and an event associated with the 
> > power button. I'm not sure what gentoo's default configs for acpid are, an 
> > event for the power button may already be defined. In case it isn't, 
> > create a file in /etc/acpi/events called power or some such name and put 
> > the following two lines in it:
> > event=button/power.*
> > action=/sbin/poweroff
> > 	Also, when enabling acpi, you got all sorts of options like fan, 
> > processor, ac adapter, button, etc. In order for the button to work, the 
> > button option has to be either compiled into the kernel or as a 
> > module--the module is named button.ko. I recommend enabling all of those 
> > options, unless you're on a desktop in which case "battery" can be left 
> > out.
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

		Chair, Accessibility Workgroup
	Free Standards Group (FSG)

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