NotebookForums.com › Forums › General Notebook Discussions › Linux & Other OS's › apm with sager 5660
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

apm with sager 5660

post #1 of 6
3/2/03 at 5:14pm
Thread Starter 
Hey folks,
I was wondering if anyone has gotten apm workng with the sager 5660 in linux? I can force the laptop to go to sleep using apm from the command line, but I can't bring it back from sleeping .... which is of course useless :-)

HEEEELP!

Thanks,
J
Reply
Reply
post #2 of 6
3/3/03 at 10:20am

APM arghhhhhhhhhhh ACPI

jcolson,

The only problem is that you should decide in using APM OR ACPI as they are mutually exclusive. So you should use one or the other, which in this case should be the other

The 5660 has acpi on the P4, wich looks after limits, temperature, suspend, throttling of the processor, states....etc.

Check this thread to find where to find the latest acpi patches. APM doesn't work for me, so i don't use it AT ALL.

Have a look here :
http://sagerforums.com/forums/showth...&threadid=1723

Hope that helps......
Reply
Reply
post #3 of 6
3/3/03 at 1:01pm
Thread Starter 
ok - i enabled apci in the kernel (redhat 8, 2.4.18) - and patched at that level (however all the patches claimed that they were already applied) ... made the kernel/modules, rebooted and I don't have a /proc/apci ..?? must have done something wrong? If anyone has any insight, would be appreciated! Also, will the gnome battery applet still work with apci instead of apm? (I disabled apm in the kernel)

J
Reply
Reply
post #4 of 6
3/3/03 at 1:20pm
Thread Starter 
I just compiled them into the kernel instead of modules .... didn't realize they wouldn't get auto-loaded...
Reply
Reply
post #5 of 6
3/3/03 at 1:29pm
Thread Starter 
I know this is bad form ... replying to myself contsantly .. :-) I apologize!

However, I have now compiled acpi into the kernel (no modules) and I get the /proc/acpi directory as well as some subdirs and other nifty stuff. BUUUUUT, there is nothing under /proc/acpi/battery ?? Is this a bug/unwritten code/etc/etc in acpi ? Do I need to upgrade my kernel/acpi in order to get battery monitoring functionality?

On the flip side, I do see that if I cat /proc/acpi/events that when I hit the sleep button, I get an event. Now how do I configure it to actually go to sleep? And more importantly, wake up?

Thanks,
J
Reply
Reply
post #6 of 6
3/3/03 at 5:17pm
Thread Starter 
for anyone else who is interested in getting acpi working ...

download the 2.4.20 kernel from kernel.org, patch with the latest 2.4.20 patchset from sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=36832) and compile ... that's all it took :-)
Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: Linux & Other OS's
NotebookForums.com › Forums › General Notebook Discussions › Linux & Other OS's › apm with sager 5660