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dreadbrazen

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From: Asheville, NC

Registered: 2007-03-01

Posts: 16

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Need help with ACPI on thinkpad

Hey everybody.... I've been banging my head against the wall trying to get ACPI working.  Worked fine under Ubuntu (I know... hiss... hiss...).  Anyways, when I press the sleep button, I get this error:

Action Forbidden
Policy timeout is not valid.  Please wait a few seconds and try again.

Here is my handler.sh:

#!/bin/sh
# Default acpi script that takes an entry for all actions

# NOTE: This is a 2.6-centric script.  If you use 2.4.x, you'll have to
#       modify it to not use /sys

minspeed=`cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq`
maxspeed=`cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq`
setspeed="/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed"

set $*

case "$1" in
    #button/power)
    button/power PWRF 00000080 xxxxxxxx)
        echo "PowerButton pressed!">/dev/tty5
        case "$2" in
            PWRF)    logger "PowerButton pressed: $2" ;;
            *)    logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
        esac
        ;;
    #button/sleep)
    ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001004)
        case "$2" in
            SLPB) /usr/bin/radeontool light off
            SLPB) echo -n mem >/sys/power/state ;;
            SLPB) /usr/bin/radeontool light on
            *)    logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
        esac
        ;;
    ac_adapter)
        case "$2" in
            AC)
                case "$4" in
                    00000000)
                        echo -n $minspeed >$setspeed
                        #/etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode start
                    ;;
                    00000001)
                        echo -n $maxspeed >$setspeed
                        #/etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode stop
                    ;;
                esac
                ;;
            *) logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
        esac
        ;;
    battery)
        case "$2" in
            BAT0)
                case "$4" in
                    00000000)    #echo "offline" >/dev/tty5
                    ;;
                    00000001)    #echo "online"  >/dev/tty5
                    ;;
                esac
                ;;
            CPU0)    
                ;;
            *) logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
        esac
        ;;

    #button/lid)
    button/lid LID 00000080 xxxxxxxx)
        #echo "LID switched!">/dev/tty5
        ;;
    *)
        logger "ACPI group/action undefined: $1 / $2"
        ;;
esac

Still trying to figure everything out.  I am on a Thinkpad X31 using the thinkpad_acpi module.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Dread Brazen
"Sweet Zombie Jesus!" - The Professor

bredin

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From: sweden

Registered: 2008-06-28

Posts: 135

Re: Need help with ACPI on thinkpad

I know that this was almost a year ago. I have the same problem on my thinkpad x61. But it seems that the reason is that gdm runs as root.

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