Re: Making the power button smarter?
maybe tldp can help:
http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Battery-Powered/powermgm.html
the general outline of steps you may have to follow is:
1. find out whether BIOS supports APM or ACPI (i believe most of the newer laptop models come with acpi)
2. make sure that your kernel includes support of the approp power management mode
3. then check either /proc/apm or /proc/acpi
if i were you. i'd just build a new kernel disablinb APM support and building ACPI (its nice to have fan, thermal, ac_adapter, etc as modules rather than built into the kernel.) then check whether your acpi tables have been built correctly in dmesg. if your kernel panics, well either you have to find a different version of acpi or stay with apm.
and finally, yes you can make the power button nicely shutdown the machine if you have acpi events working.
--
On Fri, 07 Feb 2003 16:27:04
Derek Broughton wrote:
>From: "Brian Kendig" <brian@enchanter.net>
>
>> Sebastian Henschel wrote:
>> > this will not work if ACPI does not recognize the button, check if
>> > /proc/acpi/button/power/PWRF/info exists.
>>
>> I have no '/proc/acpi'; what do I need to have installed for it to
>> appear? I have the 'acpi' and 'acpid' packages installed...
>>
>> I do have '/proc/apm' which is a one-line file with some stats; should
>> I use that instead somehow?
>
>Probably. Possibly not. It depends whether you have an apm or acpi BIOS.
>
>> Or maybe since I have 'acpid' installed, I shouldn't have 'acpi'
>> installed? It looks like 'acpi' is just for compatibility with the old
>> 'apm' stuff?
>
>Everything I've seen makes it quite clear that acpi is the replacement for apm,
>so I'm not sure where you'd get that idea. acpid is simply a daemon for
>monitoring and reacting to acpi events. Without acpi, acpid doesn't do a thing.
>
>
>--
>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-request@lists.debian.org
>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
>
>
_____________________________________________________________
Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year.
http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus
Reply to: