Forgive me. I'm still a bit new to bug reporting. Would acpi-support be the package I'm looking for? <blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">
<div><br><div>Description: scripts for handling many ACPI events</div><div> This package contains scripts to react to various ACPI events. It only</div><div> includes scripts for events that can be supported with some level of</div>
<div> safety cross platform.</div><div> .</div><div> It is able to:</div><div> * Detect loss and gain of AC power, lid closure, and the press of a</div><div> number of specific buttons (on Asus, IBM, Lenovo, Panasonic, Sony</div>
<div> and Toshiba laptops).</div><div> * Suspend, hibernate and resume the computer, with workarounds for</div><div> hardware that needs it.</div><div> * On some laptops, set screen brightness.</div><div><br></div>
</div></blockquote>or acpid<div><br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><div>Description: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon</div>
</div><div><div> Modern computers support the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)</div></div><div><div> to allow intelligent power management on your system and to query battery and</div></div><div><div> configuration status.</div>
</div><div><div> .</div></div><div><div> ACPID is a completely flexible, totally extensible daemon for delivering</div></div><div><div> ACPI events. It listens on netlink interface (or on the deprecated file</div></div><div>
<div> /proc/acpi/event), and when an event occurs, executes programs to handle the</div></div><div><div> event. The programs it executes are configured through a set of configuration</div></div><div><div> files, which can be dropped into place by packages or by the admin.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><div><br></div><div>I can manually suspend and hibernate by running the appropriate script in /etc/acpi but it doesn't happen automatically when my battery runs out.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Debian Bug Tracking System <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:owner@bugs.debian.org">owner@bugs.debian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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