Re: ACPI, APM, hassles ...

[Hugo van der Merwe <hugovdm@mail.com>]

> You don't really need the patch, since there's a workaround for the way
> acpid reads from /proc/acpid/events build in the debian package.

Great, thanks.

> In the moment acpi is not that useful like apm. Ok. You can read the battery
> status etc. in much detail, but trying to suspend will not work as expected.
> There are some patches to do hibernation and suspend to ram, but these
> are alpha. There's also a software suspend to disk patch. I tried this, but
> its not meant to be a "production" candidate.

Hmm, oh yea, passing a suspend event received by acpid to the BIOS is
probably defying the whole purpose of acpi... what about turning off the
screen? Is that doable? Oh, and more importantly, turning the machine
off after a shut down?

Thanks,
Hugo van der Merwe