ACPI in acer travelmate 3000?

hottdogg · 12-07-2006, 08:17 PM

Hi all,

I use acer travelmate 3000 laptop dualboot win-lin. The linux is slackware 10.2 kernel 2.6.17.3. I think I already enabled the acpi, but I'm not so sure. Hence, I post this thread.
Anyway, Here's my .config related to acpi.

Code:

# Power management options (ACPI, APM)
#
CONFIG_PM=y
CONFIG_PM_LEGACY=y
CONFIG_PM_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y
CONFIG_PM_STD_PARTITION="/dev/hda2"

#
# ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support
#
CONFIG_ACPI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y
# CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_SLEEP is not set
CONFIG_ACPI_AC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=y
# CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO is not set
# CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY is not set
CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=y
CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=y
# CONFIG_ACPI_ASUS is not set
# CONFIG_ACPI_IBM is not set
# CONFIG_ACPI_TOSHIBA is not set
CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0
# CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y
CONFIG_X86_PM_TIMER=y
# CONFIG_ACPI_CONTAINER is not set

#
# APM (Advanced Power Management) BIOS Support
#
CONFIG_APM=m
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=y
# CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT is not set
CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS=y
# CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set

My questions are:
1. How to know if my acpi is already running?
2. In my KDE Control center section Power control sub-section Laptop battery , The checkboxes (enable standby, etc.) under ACPI config tab are all greyed/disabled. How to activate them?

On my laptop, the windows xp uses the battery more economical than the slackware 10.2.

Tnx in advance.

uselpa · 12-08-2006, 08:15 AM

See if the ACPI daemon is started ("ps -ef | grep acpid"). If it's not, "chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.acpid" and "/etc/rc.d/rc.acpid".

gegechris99 · 12-08-2006, 08:20 AM

First check that package a/acpid is installed.

Then check if the startup script is enabled.

It's the file /etc/rc.d/rc.acpid. It must have executable permission (chmod +x /etc/rc.d/acpicd as root user)

Finally to check if the process is running, type in:

ps -ef | grep -i acpid

You should get at least those two lines:

Quote:

root 8 5 0 14:35 ? 00:00:00 [kacpid]
root 2288 1 0 14:36 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/acpid

cdale77 · 12-08-2006, 11:42 AM

I'm new and don't have the knowledge the other posters do, but I just got ACPI working great on my Dell Inspiron 5150 (slack 11.0, 2.6.19)

The key for me was to not only enable the correct ACPI options in that section, but also to enable the correct chip options. I have a P4, so I had to enable the machine check exception and allow P4 throttling interrupt and a few more options (memory fails).

so, my newbie advice based on my experience is to twofold:
1). ACPI Proc sleep is depricated under 2.6.19, so I did not enable it.
2). go through your config and look for clock cycle, thermal throttling, and machine check options for your chip. You may have ACPI correct, but you may not have the other kernel components ready for ACPI to talk to your chip.

hottdogg · 12-10-2006, 10:14 PM

acpid is already running. there is battery meter on my kde systray.

Code:

$ps -ef |grep acpid
root         8     5  0 10:56 ?        00:00:00 [kacpid]
root      4245     1  0 10:57 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/acpid

But, the checkboxes I mentioned are still disabled.

cdale 77, may I know what the identifier name in the .config for clock cycle, thermal throttling, and machine check options for chip?

my laptop cpu is intel centrino m processor 1.73GHz.

hottdogg · 12-12-2006, 10:13 PM

Any other members know the identifier name in kernel 2.6 .config for clock cycle, thermal throttling, and machine check options for chip?

Tnx.