On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 10:38:14 +0200 Peter Hugosson-Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Still no responses to my apm question ( > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200307/msg03355.html > ), so I've started investigating a bit, to see if I can figure this > out for myself. > > I have found the following page that describes, amoung other things, > the initscripts that are run when changing runlevels: > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html and I think I > am in the right area. Trouble is, this seems to be more aimed at > package maintainers, so that packages that add initscripts do so in > "the right way" for debian. > > Still, what I have come up with is the following: > > 1) I need to write a script that when it receives the argument "stop" > will do a "modprobe apm power_off=1". > 2) The script needs to live in /etc/rc0.d, or somewhere else but be > symlinked there. > 3) The script needs to be called Sxxloadapm, where xx is a suitably > high number so that gdm has already been stopped (I chose this, as in > rc0.d, "S" scripts are still run after "K" ones, but with the > parameter "stop", so it seems safer). > > I'm afraid that's as good as I can do by myself, so would anyone be so > kind as to do the final polishing for me (that includes suggestions as > to the script itself - I've never written one of these before, and I > find the existing ones hard to follow). > > I would also like to make sure that this is done in the nicest way, > i.e. not too hacky. The whole thing is a bit of a hack, I know, but I > can't see any other way to make this work. > > Thanks in advance. >
I can't really help, but if apm is causing you problems, and you have a fairly new motherboard, you might wanna check out if it supports acpi. I switched to acpi resently and it works like a charm (much better than apm ever did). mvg, Wim -- Only two things are infinite: human stupidity and the universe, and I'm not sure about the latter. -- Albert Einstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
