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From: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 'Hibernate' by power button
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 19:54:48
Message-Id: 200702170619.12769.dystopianray@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] 'Hibernate' by power button by Mick
1 On Saturday, 17 February 2007 6:08, Mick wrote:
2 > On Friday 16 February 2007 19:13, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:
3 > > On Saturday, 17 February 2007 5:31, Mick wrote:
4 > > > Hi All,
5 > > >
6 > > > A few weeks ago I updated acpi and hibernate and their relevant
7 > > > configuration files. Since then when I press the power button on my
8 > > > laptop nothing happens.
9 > > >
10 > > > Clearly something was changed, intentionally or otherwise, and this
11 > > > feature is no longer available to me. Would you care to point me in
12 > > > the right direction - how do I set my power button to run the hibernate
13 > > > script?
14 > >
15 > > I assume you're using acpid. Look in /etc/acpi/ there is a default script
16 > > that is run for acpi events, it handles the power button by calling
17 > > /sbin/init 0. Replace the command it runs with hibernate or similar.
18 >
19 > Thanks Raymond, I have this in my /etc/acpi/events/default:
20 > [snip]
21 >
22 > Can you spot anything out of place?
23
24 Your configs seem to all be in order.
25
26 Are you sure that the acpid init script has been started?
27
28 Also try checking your logs while pressing the hibernate button and acpid
29 should output what it is doing and what acpi events it is receiving, you can
30 view this on vt12.
31
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33 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
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Re: [gentoo-user] 'Hibernate' by power button Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>