APM and/or ACPI

Charles E Taylor IV tomalek at mindspring.com
Mon May 23 02:51:08 UTC 2005


On Sun, 22 May 2005 18:16:28 -0600
<disguised.jedi at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm having a few issues with APM and ACPI.  I need ACPI for the
> battery status monitor and such, and my laptop fully supports it, so
> I'd like to use it.  Anyway, the suspend command in the battery
> monitor uses `/usr/bin/apm -s` to suspend, and it doesn't work unless
> I pass the kernel "acpi=off apm=on" at boot.

If your laptop supports ACPI suspend, then why not just use that?

echo mem > /sys/power/state

... should do it, though you might have to unload some modules and
perhaps switch to a text terminal before suspending, depending on what
kind of machine you have.

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