On Sun, 22 May 2005 18:16:28 -0600 <disguised.jedi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm having a few issues with APM and ACPI. I need ACPI for the > battery status monitor and such, and my laptop fully supports it, so > I'd like to use it. Anyway, the suspend command in the battery > monitor uses `/usr/bin/apm -s` to suspend, and it doesn't work unless > I pass the kernel "acpi=off apm=on" at boot. If your laptop supports ACPI suspend, then why not just use that? echo mem > /sys/power/state ... should do it, though you might have to unload some modules and perhaps switch to a text terminal before suspending, depending on what kind of machine you have. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Charles Taylor <tomalek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * Chemistry instructor / Mad scientist / Linux enthusiast! -------------------------------------------------------------------- * Web: http://home.mindspring.com/~charletiv/ --------------------------------------------------------------------
