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coragonis

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Registered: 2008-10-18

Posts: 2

[SOLVED]Enable ACPI

Hi,
I have a relativly easy problem with my macbook, but I couldn't find an answer anywhere else:
I have installed acpi, acpid and added acpi=on to the kernel line in grub. At startup is says, that acpi is starting. But it doesn't do anything, there is no directory like /etc/acpi(/actions). I have created these directories and created 2 files there, as described in the macbook article, specifically files for suspend to ram and backlight control. The macbook-backlight program works manually, but when I disconnect the power cord it does not automatically dim the light. The automatic suspend-to-ram doesn't work either.
I guess the problem is, that acpi is not running correctly or has not been configured correctly.
Any ideas?

Last edited by coragonis (2008-10-18 22:26:51)

Garns

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Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 239

Re: [SOLVED]Enable ACPI

The scripts in /etc/acpi won't call themselves and the kernel will certainly not do that, that's what daemons are for. I suggest you take a look at acpid.

coragonis

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Registered: 2008-10-18

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED]Enable ACPI

Thanks a lot, this wiki article is exactly, what i was looking for, i just looked for acpi and didn't find anything^^.