when i use the battstat gnome applet, it constantly takes up from 13%-19% of proc usage. as soon as i remove it usage goes straight to 0%. This is a new installation of Slack9.1 and i used the bareacpi.i kernel. when i used just the bare.i and loaded the apm mod manually, i didnt have this problem. is there a fix or should i just change back to the old way of doing it?

what model laptop? My i8500 had to have a patched gnome-applets becaude I was seeing the same problem. No probs now...

here's the patch:

http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/resour...pi-events.diff
Get the gnome applets src and patch...

its a dell latitude CPx

it seems acpi isnt doing anything for me at all. when i close the top for the laptop, everything still runs unlike apm when i closed it it went into standby. i would think it didnt work if not for the battstat applet. is there a acpi config somewhere i should take a look at?

my power button no longer works either, i have to shutdown via "shutdown -h now" to get it to shut off.

even more.... i check the logs for acpid and this is what i found
/var/log/acpid:
[Sun Oct 19 04:18:46 2003] received event "button/power PBTN 00000080 00000005"
[Sun Oct 19 04:18:46 2003] executing action "/etc/acpi/acpi_handler.sh button/power PBTN 00000080 00000005"
[Sun Oct 19 04:18:46 2003] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES
[Sun Oct 19 04:18:46 2003] END HANDLER MESSAGES
[Sun Oct 19 04:18:46 2003] action exited with status 0
[Sun Oct 19 04:18:46 2003] completed event "button/power PBTN 00000080 00000005"

/etc/acpi/acpi_handler.sh contents:
#!/bin/sh
# Default acpi script that takes an entry for all actions

set $*

case "$1" in
button)
case "$2" in
power) /sbin/init 0
;;
*) logger "ACPI action $2 is not defined"
;;
esac
;;

*)
logger "ACPI group $1 / action $2 is not defined"
;;
esac

im lost......

edit: not any more

i read some of your previous posts about acpi and got all the info i needed from them, except still no standby mode when lid is closed.

/etc/acpi/actions/lid

#!/bin/sh

# Acts on lid open/close events

# Load config
if [ -f /etc/acpi/actions/functions ]; then
. /etc/acpi/actions/functions
else
exit 1
fi

# Take action
if lid_open ; then
screen_power on
else # lid closed
# we do nothing if we are on AC power, as we probably have an
# external monitor present. Best of course would be to test
# for prescence of external monitor, but don't know how
if ! ac_online; then
screen_power off
fi
fi


/etc/acpi/actions/ac_adapter

!/bin/sh

# Acts on AC power change status

# Load config
if [ -f /etc/acpi/actions/functions ]; then
. /etc/acpi/actions/functions
else
exit 1
fi
if [ -f /etc/acpi/actions/config ]; then
. /etc/acpi/actions/config
fi

# Since APM is not available the APM script cannot handle
# the power changes (the apm command to query power status does not work).
# We emulate behaviour of APM script.

. $APMCONFIG

# Act on power related services, arg must be 'start' or 'stop'
power_services () {
[ -z "$POWER_SERVICES" ] && return
for i in $POWER_SERVICES; do
/sbin/service $i $1
done
}

# Adjusts CPU power setting, arg must be 'high' or 'low'
# Method depends on CPUPOWER variable
cpu_power () {

if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/cpudynd -a "$CPUPOWER" != "cpudyn" ]; then
echo "WARN: cpudyn service apparantly running but using non cpudyn method" 2>&1
fi

case "$CPUPOWER" in
cpudyn)
if [ ! -f /var/lock/subsys/cpudynd ]; then
echo "ERROR: cpudynd service not running" 1>&2
return
fi
if [ "$1" == "high" ]; then
killall -USR1 cpudynd # lock cpudynd at maximum
else
killall -HUP cpudynd # let cpudynd dynamically adjust
fi
;;
cpufreq)
if [ ! -f /proc/cpufreq ]; then
echo "ERROR: cpufreq support not present" 1>&2
return
fi
if [ "$1" == "high" ]; then
echo -n "0%${CPUFREQ_MIN_AC}%${CPUFREQ_MAX_AC}%${CPUFREQ_POL_AC}" > /proc/cpufreq
else
echo -n ""0%${CPUFREQ_MIN_BAT}%${CPUFREQ_MAX_BAT}%${CPUFREQ_POL_BAT}"" > /proc/cpufreq
fi
;;
acpi)
if [ ! -f /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/performance ]; then
echo "ERROR: ACPI processor support not present" 1>&2
return
fi
if [ "$1" == "high" ]; then
echo -n 0 > /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/performance
else
n=`sed '/^state count:/{s/[^0-6]*//;p};d' < /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/performance`
n="$[$n-1]"
echo -n $n > /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/performance
fi
;;
off)
;;
*)
echo "ERROR: invalid CPUPOWER value" 1>&2
esac
}

# Act on change
if ac_online; then
power_services start
cpu_power high
if [ -x /etc/acpi/actions/laptop-mode ]; then
/etc/acpi/actions/laptop-mode stop
fi
else # AC off-line
power_services stop
cpu_power low
if [ -x /etc/acpi/actions/laptop-mode ]; then
/etc/acpi/actions/laptop-mode start
fi
fi
exit 0


/etc/acpi/actions/functions

#!/bin/sh

#
# Setup
#

# Check prescense of /proc filesystem
if [ ! -d /proc ]; then
echo "ERROR: /proc filesystem not present" 1>&2
exit 1
fi

# Autodetect APM script location
if [ -x /etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/apmscript ]; then
APMSCRIPT=/etc/sysconfig/apm-scripts/apmscript
elif [ -x /etc/apm/apmd_proxy ]; then
APMSCRIPT=/etc/apm/apmd_proxy
else
APMSCRIPT=:
fi

# Autodetect APM config location
if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/apmd ]; then
APMCONFIG=/etc/sysconfig/apmd
else
APMCONFIG=/dev/null
fi

#
# Functions
#

# Check VMware usage
check_vmware_off () {
# we check vmware usage by checking the module usage count for vmmon
local n
[ -f /proc/modules ] || return 0
n=`sed '/^vmmon/{s/vmmon[^0-9]*[0-9]*[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\).*$/\1/;p};d' < /proc/modules`
if [ -z "$n" -o "$n" == "0" ]; then
return 0
else
return 1
fi
}

# Check if nothing that prevents suspending is running
# currently vmware only
check_suspend_ok () {
if [ ! check_vmware_off ]; then
echo "ERROR: vmware is running cannot suspend" 1>&2
return 1
fi
return 0
}

# Execute specified hdparm options on all present hard disks (not cd-roms)
# Currently only IDE
hdparm_all_hd () {
local d
local t
for d in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t ; do
if [ -e /proc/ide/hd$d ] ; then
t=`cat /proc/ide/hd$d/media`
[ "$t" == "disk" ] && hdparm "$@" /dev/hd$d
fi
done
}

# Execute specified hdparm options on all present drives
# Currently only IDE
hdparm_all_drives () {
local d

for d in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t ; do
[ -e /proc/ide/hd$d ] && hdparm "$@" /dev/hd$d
done
}

# Spins all disks down
spin_disks_down () {
hdparm_all_drives -y
}

# Screen power on all active local X servers, arg 1 must be 'on' or 'off'
screen_power () {
local lock pid user disp xauth
if [ "$1" != "on" -a "$1" != "off" ] ; then
echo "ERROR: invalid arg for screen_blanking()" 1>&2
return 1
fi
# do DPMS call on each locally running X server
for lock in /tmp/.X*-lock ; do
[ -O $lock ] || continue # effective ID is always root here
pid=`cat $lock`
pid=`echo $pid` # remove leading spaces
tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/$pid/cmdline | egrep -q '(^|/)X$' || continue;
user=`tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/$pid/environ | sed '/^USER=/{s/.*=//;p};d'`
disp=`tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/$pid/cmdline | grep '^:[0-9][0-9]*$'`
xauth=`tr '\0' '\n' < /proc/$pid/environ | sed '/^XAUTHORITY=/{s/.*=//;p};d'`
[ -z "$disp" ] && continue
[ -n "$xauth" ] && export XAUTHORITY=$xauth
export DISPLAY=$disp
if [ -n "$user" -a "$user" != "root" ]; then
su -s /bin/sh -m -c "/usr/X11R6/bin/xset dpms force $1" $user
else
/usr/X11R6/bin/xset dpms force $1
fi
done
unset DISPLAY
unset XAUTHORITY
}

# Checks if running on AC power
ac_online () {
if [ ! -f /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state ]; then
echo "ERROR: ACPI AC status support not present" 1>&2
return 0
fi
if LC_ALL=C grep -q on-line < /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state; then
return 0
else
return 1
fi
}

# Checks if lid is open
lid_open () {
if [ ! -f /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state ]; then
echo "ERROR: ACPI button support not present" 1>&2
return 0
fi
if LC_ALL=C grep -q open < /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state; then
return 0
else
return 1
fi
}

/etc/acpi/actions/suspend

#!/bin/sh

# Sleep to ACPI S1 state. Higher states not supported on Linux 2.4.x

# Load config
if [ -f /etc/acpi/actions/functions ]; then
. /etc/acpi/actions/functions
else
exit 1
fi

if [ ! -f /proc/acpi/sleep ]; then
echo "ERROR: ACPI support not present" 1>&2
exit 1
fi

LOCKFILE=/var/lock/subsys/acpi-suspend

if [ -f $LOCKFILE ]; then
pid=`cat $LOCKFILE`
wall "ACPI suspend requested but previous suspend process still going (PID $pid)"
exit 1
fi

# Check that suspend would be OK
check_suspend_ok || exit 1
# Start suspend process
echo $$ > "$LOCKFILE"
screen_power off
# Perform APM configured suspend settings
"$APMSCRIPT" standby user
sync
spin_disks_down
# Suspend
echo -n "1" > /proc/acpi/sleep
# Resume back to normal
"$APMSCRIPT" resume standby
screen_power on
rm -f "$LOCKFILE"

/etc/acpi/events/sleep

# Events for suspend button

event=button/sleep.*
action=/etc/acpi/actions/suspend %e

/etc/acpi/actions/lid

# Events for plug / unplug AC adapter

event=button/lid.*
action=/etc/acpi/actions/lid %e

/etc/acpi/actions/ac_adapter

# Events for plug / unplug AC adapter

event=ac_adapter.*
action=/etc/acpi/actions/ac_adapter %e

I'm about to try this out on an Inspiron 5100, hopefully it will do some good

Unfortunately that didn't help with my problem
I wish this darn backlight would turn off when I close my lid!