Re: VAIO GRX616SP & Red Hat 9

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 09:48, [email protected] wrote:
> ...> 
> > looks like the ACPI modules aren't loading.
> 
> They are there.  Otherwise there would be no /proc/acpi/battery.  
> BTW, I can live without them, as sonypi already reports the 
> battery status.
> 

good point; failing that, you may have an old version of ACPI or
unsupported hardware.

> ...> 
> > gkacpi, kacpi -- I don't know about one for the gnome panel 
> though.
> 
> thanks you.  gkacpi should be the gnome one.
> 

no, it's actually for gkrellm.

> > > - Either with apm, or acpi, when mI do sleep or suspend, or 
> > > anything else, I get back, actually I see no signs of getting 
> > > back.  I have set up resume=/dev/hdxy, but that should be related 
> > > to the suspend to disk, what about the others?  I did echo 3 > 
> > > /proc/acpi/sleep. 
> > > 
> > sleep (suspend to ram) isn't supported in 2.4 kernels at all; suspend to
> > disk works for some people, but not for all. Have a look at
> > /etc/suspend.conf and the pmsuspend script, you might be able to tweak
> > them and get lucky.
> 
> Well, it's a redhat kernel.  They usually do port backwards.  
> So, how should I check if it works?  any modules?  piece of code?  
> How should I do suspend to disk?  Also, how can I grab the power
> button?  currently it does nothing, and neither acpi nor sonypi
> catch that.
> 

nobody's backporting this, suspend-to-ram relies on code that is only
available in 2.5.*.  http://sourceforge.net/projects/swsusp and the
older page at
http://fchabaud.free.fr/English/default.php3?COUNT=3&FILE0=Tricks&FILE1=Laptop&FILE2=Swsusp have information on suspend-to-disk. Once you've got that working, you can grab power button events with acpid. For instance:

[jack@chupacabra jack]$ cat /etc/acpi/events/power 
# change screen brightness when AC adapter comes and goes
event=ac_adapter.*
action=/etc/acpi/actions/powerchange

# shut down when power button is pressed
event=button/power.*
action=/usr/local/sbin/halt-dialog

> > > - Anything else that can be caught by sonypi module other than Fn 
> > > keys?
> > 
> > jogdial events.
> 
> What is this jogdial thing?  the common wheel that almost all 
> sony products have?  I don't have one.  Or is it somewhere I 
> couldn't find out yet?
> 

Right -- bummer, mine is right between the mouse buttons and makes a
handy scroll wheel.

> > > - Any ready systems that sets cpu speed based on acpi output (on 
> > > battery, ...)?
> > 
> > there are some scripts out there for listening to acpi events and
> > running tools like longrun -- autospeedstep is a more efficient way to
> > do it though, so I'd just stick with that.
> 
> Thanks you.  Weird that Red Hat has almost no support for these 
> stuff.
> 

We try to avoid distro wars on this list, but if you're looking for a
better out-of-the-box laptop experience, you might try out Mandrake or
SuSE.

> > > Well, I really need some help.  Please do that.
> > > 
> > > Behdad
> 
> Thanks you very much.  If I can get any suspend or sleep mode 
> working, I almost have all what I need.  Then I'm going to do 
> some hacking, to make everything work from the GUI.

I still don't have swsusp working, unfortunately, but I'm also not
willing to keep up with the bleeding edge of development. I've got most
everything GUI-fied and/or key-press triggered now though, thanks to
acpid and rsjog for sonypi events.
-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...