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: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFA1YrGWSjv55S0LfERApctAJ9ZqeaZFhKdGG0bumpW0j8fwGr8ewCgmmT7 > xrZGI/Tl5VN7yUxM2Zv/kSM= > =y22b > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
