ACPI on pavilion xt178

[md wills]

Has anyone had any success setting up this laptop to power down properly? Other laptops (under RH 6.1 - RH 8.0) I have had always powered off while using the APM daemon. I have been told to use the ACPI drivers under RH 8.0. Unfortunately the laptop doesn't poweroff. It gives the message "PowerDown" and stays powered up. Any help would be appreciated.

--Martin--

Note: APIC modules are installed in my kernal and the APM modules are not.

[Bruce Copeland]

Unfortunately there probably isn't any really straightforward answer to your question. ACPI is fairly new; it isn't fully supported by current kernels; and the ACPI features on any given computer depend to some extent on the bios. With the exception of the bios part, it's unlikely your problems are specific to the xt178. Here's a rough sketch of what you need to do:

1) Make sure you have at least a 2.4.19 kernel with an appropriate patch from the ACPI project at SourceForge.

2) Install acpid (or some other equivalent scheme for monitoring and responding to ACPI changes.

3) Make sure any scripts associated with acpid (or equivalent) actually DO what you want in terms of shutdown. For example my powerbtn action sript simply calls init(0). That may or may not be what you want.

4) If you're using any other software besides or in addition to acpid, make sure that the /proc/acpi subdirectory/filenames used actually correspond to what is present on your machine. THIS is the part that depends on the bios!!!

Good luck and don't hesitate to come back if you have further questions.

Bruce