Re: VAIO GRX616SP & Red Hat 9

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Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.sony
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 25 Jul 2003, Jack Coates wrote:

> 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.

Well, I bravely compiled and installed 2.6.0-test1-ac3, and the 
default GNOME battery applet works like a charm.  BTW the 
touchpad stopped working.  Anybody knows about 
kernel options (2.5, 2.6) that I should turn on to fix that?  I 
have tried everything that looks relevant.
Also, the DVD is not available under /dev/hdc anymore, it has 
gone to /dev/scd0.  It took me a while to find 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:

suspend to disk does not work. The kernel just reboots after 
reading the resume file.  One silly thing I lost with acpi is 
that poweroff does not works.  Any idea how I can switch to the 
old poweroff method (non acpi)?  Or any workaround for that.

> [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

Would you please send me your /etc/acpi stuff?  Where can I get 
some good scripts?  I dont want to write it all myself if there 
are good stuff around.

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