Colin Laurie wrote: > Thank you for that. > Unfortunately I already have pmtools for 64 bit Suse linux KDE4. > I cannot currently find a way to run programs unless they are in the applications menu, other than > from my bash terminal. > The latter does not recognise any acpid__ commands or have any man pages for them. > > Apologies if I am displaying my ignorance but there is no guidance whatsoever in this matter, that I > can find. > <http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/utilities.php> In summary, dump the ACPI tables from your system to a text file: $ acpidump > acpidump.out Perhaps you need to start a root shell using the "su" command, before you try running the "acpidump" command. acpidump likely lives under /usr/sbin which is not in the search path for normal users (and it should need root privileges anyway). This might be considered a UI flaw in SUSE. In Ubuntu you would be able to run "acpidump" as a normal user, and then guess that root was required if it complains "permission denied". Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
