Re: [ACPI-sppt] Problems with Event-catching in acpid

look up swsusp on the web.

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 12:42, Swen wrote:
...
> A other question: Did you know a command which get the Computer going in 
> standby (he should wake up by pressing a key).
> 
> 
> Bye and thanks
> 
> Swen
> 
> > From: "Sebastian Henschel" <[email protected]>
> >
> >> Received at 2003-06-11 / 09:04 by Swen:
> >>>
> >>> I had a problem with the acpid-tool. It doesn't work, so i want! in
> >>> /var/log/acpid the events where shown correctly. I had create a file
> >>> /etc/acpi/events/power wich contents
> >>>
> >>> event=button/power.*
> >>> action=/etc/acpi/scripte/power.sh
> >>
> >> i remember there was an alternative in the regexp like
> >> event=button[/ ]power.*
> >> in my power-event, but this could be wrong.
> >>
> >> anyway, i now use only the default event which catches all:
> >>
> >> event=.*
> >> action=/etc/acpi/default.sh %e
> >>
> >> the event parsing is done in that script, check the attached default.sh
> >
> > In your case, Swen, you'd need to catch the "LID" and "battery" events 
> > (the
> > latter quite possibly aren't generated!  I've never seen one, others have 
> > a
> > similar problem).  Using the default script Sebastian included, open and 
> > close
> > the lid a few times, and remove and insert the battery while on AC and 
> > let the
> > battery run down (if you don't have some BIOS powered alert like I do, be 
> > sure
> > to dismount all your partitions except the one with your syslog before it 
> > dies!
> > A journalling file system should be running on - at least - the logging
> > partition).
> >
> > Then check the logs for the ACPI events to determine exactly which alerts 
> > are
> > being sent to acpid, and then write appropriate scripts.
> >
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