Re: Tools to handle ACPI events?
... Untill then, it is my personal experience, that Fn-F8 restarts the
display.
Hopefully this applies to your inspiron too.
Regards, Anders Breindahl.
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From: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>
To: Joe Emenaker <joe@emenaker.com>
Cc: Debian Laptop List <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:20:40 +0200
Subject: 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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