My ThinkPad (T20) does not shutdown properly. I'm told that this is because I am polling the temperature (with cpuinfo), and also the battery.
Actually, I would rather have the battery and temperature info than shutdown properly, so I regard it as a price I have to pay. (It does not seem to have any bad consequences, since the hard disk does stop.)
But is there any way round this? Has it been notified as a bug, and if so of what? (I couldn't find it after a brief search.)
what about the acpi daemon? is it running well or not?
--jo-- Timothy Murphy wrote:
My ThinkPad (T20) does not shutdown properly. I'm told that this is because I am polling the temperature (with cpuinfo), and also the battery.
Actually, I would rather have the battery and temperature info than shutdown properly, so I regard it as a price I have to pay. (It does not seem to have any bad consequences, since the hard disk does stop.)
But is there any way round this? Has it been notified as a bug, and if so of what? (I couldn't find it after a brief search.)
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 11:39, Johannes Christian wrote:
what about the acpi daemon? is it running well or not?
Yes, acpid is always running. (I don't know if it is running "well", how do you tell?)
My ThinkPad (T20) does not shutdown properly. I'm told that this is because I am polling the temperature (with cpuinfo), and also the battery.
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:46:01AM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 11:39, Johannes Christian wrote:
what about the acpi daemon? is it running well or not?
Yes, acpid is always running. (I don't know if it is running "well", how do you tell?)
The acpid daemon logs all the events that it sees to /var/log/acpid
What is recorded there when you close and open the lid? or press Fn-F4 (on my T30) to initiate sleep?
Based on what I saw there, I've created these files to make it work:
******* /etc/acpi/events/lid.conf *******
event=button/lid* action=/usr/sbin/pm-suspend
******* /etc/acpi/events/sleep.conf *******
event=button/sleep* action=/usr/sbin/pm-suspend
My ThinkPad (T20) does not shutdown properly. I'm told that this is because I am polling the temperature (with cpuinfo), and also the battery.
I don't know about the T20, but my T30 sleeps and hibernates properly provided that I use pm-suspend and pm-hibernate, respectively. Make sure you have installed the pm-utils package, eg, yum install pm-utils
The other way of sleeping, acpitool -s , doesn't work. There have been some changes in recent kernels. I'm currently running kernel-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 in which pm-suspend works correctly.
On Sunday 20 August 2006 22:29, David A. De Graaf wrote:
On Tuesday 01 August 2006 11:39, Johannes Christian wrote:
what about the acpi daemon? is it running well or not?
Yes, acpid is always running. (I don't know if it is running "well", how do you tell?)
The acpid daemon logs all the events that it sees to /var/log/acpid
What is recorded there when you close and open the lid? or press Fn-F4 (on my T30) to initiate sleep?
Yes, this seems to be recorded, though I have not set up any software to use the sleep command, so this has no effect: ------------------------------------------------------------------ [Sun Aug 20 23:43:55 2006] received event "button/lid LID 00000080 0000000d" [Sun Aug 20 23:43:55 2006] notifying client 1991[68:68] [Sun Aug 20 23:43:55 2006] completed event "button/lid LID 00000080 0000000d" [Sun Aug 20 23:44:00 2006] received event "button/lid LID 00000080 0000000e" [Sun Aug 20 23:44:00 2006] notifying client 1991[68:68] [Sun Aug 20 23:44:00 2006] completed event "button/lid LID 00000080 0000000e" [Sun Aug 20 23:45:08 2006] received event "button/sleep SLPB 00000080 00000001" [Sun Aug 20 23:45:08 2006] notifying client 1991[68:68] [Sun Aug 20 23:45:08 2006] completed event "button/sleep SLPB 00000080 00000001" ------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't know about the T20, but my T30 sleeps and hibernates properly provided that I use pm-suspend and pm-hibernate, respectively.
I wasn't actually asking about suspend or hibernate, I was asking why shutdown does not work properly on my T20 - the disk stops, but the machine does not usually turn off. It doesn't particularly worry me, since I assume as the disk is no longer spinning nothing bad can happen if I press the power button for 10 seconds. And in fact nothing bad does seem to happen.
I suspect this issue is connected to acpi, although it still happens now I have turned off the cpuinfo temperature indicator.
Make sure you have installed the pm-utils package, eg, yum install pm-utils
I'm not sure of the relevance to my problem, but I do in fact have this package installed.
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