Greetings all- I've spent a bit of time on my thinkpad T23 trying to get power management to work. The thinkpad has the latest bios rev from IBM's website and just for kicks I installed mepis and saw that ACPI seemed to work flawlessly while APM produced lots of lost interrupt handlers even with some corrective additions to APM found on google.
This evening I installed 2.6.8.1 on debian unstable and found that I am able to get acpi working with suspend to ram, disk, etc and I found a neato little tool called acpitool which manages all of the switches, knobs, and dials of acpi or at least a subset that makes things better. Now the big questions remain. How does one get a suspend event with acpi to be triggered when I close the laptop lid? I know about the /etc/acpi scripts but on my dell inspiron 4100 (with apm of course) it works like a treat. I can simply shut the lid and apm powers off the system, takes care of networking, etc. I don't run gnome or kde here so I have been using the acpitool to do things on the laptop and I've played a bit with suspend to ram. Is there a X based graphical application that can manage laptop stuff much like Klaptop does? I don't want/need the whole KDE thing. Many thanks for reading this! -- Michael Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
