Re: Power button with ACPI

[andras.lorincz@gmail.com]

On Monday 07 February 2005 18:45, Jeremy Brooks wrote:
> > Compiled 2.6.10 kernel and included the neccessary things as described in
> > the
> > acpi-howto, installed acpi and acpid. dmesg | grep ACPI says:
>
> <snip>
>
> > So I think that my hardware is supported. In the BIOS APM is disabled and
> > ACPI
> > is enables enabled. I also found that the file /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn
> > exists. But when I press the power button nothing happens.
>
> Are there any messages in /var/log/messages when you press the button?
> Have you verified that acpid is actually running?
> ~$ ps -ef | grep acpi
> root        16     3  0 Feb04 ?        00:00:00 [kacpid]
> root      4884     1  0 Feb04 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/acpid -c
> /etc/acpi/events -s /var/run/acpid.socket

acpid is running and ps -ef | grep acpi shows like to you, but 
in /var/log/messages I cannot see anything showing that I pressed the power 
button.