ThinkPad T23, latest bios, apm and acpi
Greetings all-
I've spent a bit of time on my thinkpad T23 trying to get power
management to work. The thinkpad has the latest bios rev from IBM's
website and just for kicks I installed mepis and saw that ACPI seemed
to work flawlessly while APM produced lots of lost interrupt handlers
even with some corrective additions to APM found on google.
This evening I installed 2.6.8.1 on debian unstable and found that I
am able to get acpi working with suspend to ram, disk, etc and I found
a neato little tool called acpitool which manages all of the switches,
knobs, and dials of acpi or at least a subset that makes things
better.
Now the big questions remain. How does one get a suspend event with
acpi to be triggered when I close the laptop lid? I know about the
/etc/acpi scripts but on my dell inspiron 4100 (with apm of course) it
works like a treat. I can simply shut the lid and apm powers off the
system, takes care of networking, etc. I don't run gnome or kde here
so I have been using the acpitool to do things on the laptop and I've
played a bit with suspend to ram. Is there a X based graphical
application that can manage laptop stuff much like Klaptop does? I
don't want/need the whole KDE thing.
Many thanks for reading this!
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Michael Perry
meperry@gmail.com
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