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Re: Tools to handle ACPI events?



On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 20:39 -0700, Joe Emenaker wrote:
> Howdy all...
> 
> Ever since switching from APM to ACPI on my Dell Inspiron, none of the 
> events seem to do anything anymore. If I close the lid and open it, the 
> screen doesn't come back. The Fn-Esc ("Suspend") doesn't do anything at 
> all, etc.
> 
> I delved into the /etc/acpi directory and found a script and acpid 
> config file, but there was nothing in there for handling common 
> suspend/standby/resume issues like resetting the system clock from the 
> hardware clock... or getting the GUI back on its feet, etc.
> 
> First: Am I missing something here? Is there some Debian package that's 
> supposed to have a bunch of handlers for lid-close/open, or other 
> standby/resume issues?
> 
> If not, I'm going to start working on a set of scripts/tools to handle 
> all of this well. Does anybody have any scripts they've already written 
> that I should start with? Anybody else want to help?

Funny you should ask, there's just been a discussion on this on debian-
devel. I'll be building these shared scripts. I'll let you know when
they're done.

-- 
Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>



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