Hello,
I am using CentOS 5.1 on a toshiba tecra 8000 notebook. That works great so far. The only thing I could not realize is to shutdown the notebook if closing the lid. Therefor I need the current status (open or close) of the lid, but I don't know how. Is there any way to get this status, maybe under /proc/ or by some command?
[root@beutelsend ~]# uname -a Linux beutelsend 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 5 11:36:49 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@beutelsend ~]# chkconfig --list apmd apmd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off [root@beutelsend ~]# service apmd status apmd (PID 1760) wird ausgeführt...
thank you very much Olaf
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 08:54 +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote:
Is there any way to get this status, maybe under /proc/ or by some command?
Look under /proc/acpi/button/lid/. On one of my notebooks, this works:
[ksandhu@krs ~] cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state info state
Regards,
Ranbir
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
Hello,
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 08:54 +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote:
Is there any way to get this status, maybe under /proc/ or by some command?
Look under /proc/acpi/button/lid/. On one of my notebooks, this works:
/proc/acpi doesn't here exists, acpid is installed. Is my notebook too old?
# chkconfig --list acpid acpid 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off # service acpid status #
Any other ideas?
regards Olaf
Olaf Mueller wrote:
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
Hello,
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 08:54 +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote:
Is there any way to get this status, maybe under /proc/ or by some command?
Look under /proc/acpi/button/lid/. On one of my notebooks, this works:
/proc/acpi doesn't here exists, acpid is installed. Is my notebook too old?
That is entirely possible, yes. The 8000 is from ~1999? Might be that the acpi bios is blacklisted. Searching for acpi in dmesg should give more hints.
Any other ideas?
With apm stuff like suspend when closing the lid usually goes through the BIOS settings.
The only thing you'll find in /proc is /proc/apm. And IIRC this does not give you the status of the lid button or similar.
Cheers,
Ralph
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Hello.
Olaf Mueller wrote:
/proc/acpi doesn't here exists, acpid is installed. Is my notebook too old?
That is entirely possible, yes. The 8000 is from ~1999?
Yes, it is. I use it as a thin client (X -ac -port 177 -query <centos 5 server with kde 3.5.9>).
Might be that the acpi bios is blacklisted. Searching for acpi in dmesg should give more hints.
# grep ACPI /var/log/dmesg BIOS-e820: 000000000fff0000 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000100b6e00 - 00000000100b7000 (ACPI NVS) ACPI: RSDP (v000 TOSHIB ) @ 0x000f0d90 ACPI: RSDT (v001 TOSHIB 750 0x00970814 TASM 0x04010000) @ 0x0fff0000 ACPI: FADT (v001 TOSHIB 750 0x00970814 TASM 0x04010000) @ 0x0fff0054 ACPI: BOOT (v001 TOSHIB 750 0x00970814 TASM 0x04010000) @ 0x0fff002c ACPI: DSDT (v001 TOSHIB 8000 0x19981112 MSFT 0x0100000a) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: Disabling ACPI support ACPI Exception (utmutex-0262): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Thread C1257AA0 could not acquire Mutex [2] [20060707] ACPI Exception (utmutex-0262): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Thread C1257AA0 could not acquire Mutex [2] [20060707] ACPI: Interpreter disabled. pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled PCI quirk: region fe00-fe3f claimed by PIIX4 ACPI
Is this also blacklisted under CentOS 4, or better, would CentOS 4 be a solution for my problem?
regards Olaf
Olaf Mueller wrote:
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Might be that the acpi bios is blacklisted. Searching for acpi in dmesg should give more hints.
# grep ACPI /var/log/dmesg
ACPI: Disabling ACPI support ACPI Exception (utmutex-0262): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Thread C1257AA0 could not acquire Mutex [2] [20060707] ACPI Exception (utmutex-0262): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Thread C1257AA0 could not acquire Mutex [2] [20060707] ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Is this also blacklisted under CentOS 4, or better, would CentOS 4 be a solution for my problem?
You can try with the live CD. But I'd think that it also is disabled there.
Ralph
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
Hello,
Olaf Mueller wrote:
ACPI: Interpreter disabled. Is this also blacklisted under CentOS 4, or better, would CentOS 4 be a solution for my problem?
You can try with the live CD. But I'd think that it also is disabled there.
thank you very much for your help. Now I have tried the CentOS 4.4 LiveCD with the following result.
# cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state state: open
I am happy, it works! But this also means that CentOS 4 must be installed on my already installed CentOS 5 notebook. I suppose to use a CentOS 4 kernel under CentOS 5 is not recommendable?
regards Olaf
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