ACPI issues

ValidiusMaximus · 01-14-2005, 06:10 PM

I finally got as battery for my laptop and so i want to have power management running.

I installed ACPI and it is running:

3999 ? 00:00:00 acpid

Now my question is this: How to i make it suspend or standby?

barryman_5000 · 01-14-2005, 10:35 PM

First test if they work for you:

If you have a 2.6 kernel type:

Code:

echo standby > /sys/power/state

If you run 2.4 then try:

Code:

echo S3 > /sys/power/state

Or something along those lines for 2.4 (you can also cat /sys/power/state to see your options).

Good luck!

ValidiusMaximus · 01-15-2005, 04:28 PM

nothing happens. Acpi works to some degree because i now have my power button do a safe shutdown for my computer.

ValidiusMaximus · 01-15-2005, 09:16 PM

anyone? I really need to get this to work!

kpachopoulos · 01-25-2009, 05:39 PM

Hi,
i have some ACPI issues as well. IBM X40 with Debian lenny and "Linux ibm 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Mon Dec 15 18:15:07 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux" kernel.
1/"Shutdown -h now" make the laptop freeze; the shutdown procedure starts, daemon shutdown, screen becomes black and laptop freezes...
2/Can i do "suspend-to-disk" instead of shutting down, since i am impatient? Would somebody for some reason advise me against suspending to disk and be in favor of shuting down normally?
3/Either "kpowermanager" or "gnome-power-manager" - i use gnome- don't work. The settings for brightness, suspend, etc are saved but make no difference... Does it have with to do not being able to write /proc/acpi?

Thans