-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 do you have acpid installed, configured, and running? On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 06:23:01PM -0400, Jayson Smith wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup - -- Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion. -- Mike Coleman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFA0i9c9XVrM3ri110RAipsAJ0VcgZkfSvBfRMAEc8qqFMDjszskQCXTngv NF0mITIeRtnUuT13u3HZMQ== =SJO2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
