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Slacko 5.3.3 and acpitool
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zippytex

Joined: 06 Feb 2009
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PostPosted: Sun 01 Jul 2012, 12:46    Post subject:  Slacko 5.3.3 and acpitool
Subject description: unable to suspend laptop		  
Hi, I have used acpitool -s to suspend my laptop on Lucid and it worked fine. However, when I try to use it with slacko, I get the following message.

# acpitool -s
Function Do_Suspend : could not open file : You must have write access to /proc/acpi/sleep to suspend your computer.

Is there something I can do to make it work or does Slacko use a different method to suspend a laptop?

I have a Toshiba Tecra M9 laptop, 2 gb ram, 2 GHZ dual CPU.

Thanks for your help.

Mary
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bigpup


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PostPosted: Sun 01 Jul 2012, 14:02    Post subject:  
Something to try.
Go to the file sleep located at /proc/acpi/
Right click on file.
Select properties.
Give everyone write access.
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zippytex

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PostPosted: Sun 01 Jul 2012, 16:54    Post subject: Thank you for your reply
Subject description: acpi files		  
/pro/acpi (All)
file folder ac_adapter
file folder battery
file folder button
file folder toshiba

file alarm
file event
file wakeup

There is no 'sleep' file.
What has happened?

Am using acpitool-0/5/1 from, Slackware
Thanks.
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Karl Godt


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PostPosted: Sun 01 Jul 2012, 17:32    Post subject:  
hmmm ... have compiled acpitool once .. but have to dig out the source ..

acpitool can be compiled to "support" special laptop brands iirc ..

acpitool has to be patched to support 3.x kernels . If you run slacko kernel 2.6.37.x then "normal" acpitool may work too (from lupu) .

: acpi-tool-0.5.1 racy-5.3
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zippytex

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PostPosted: Sun 01 Jul 2012, 18:37    Post subject: acpitool
Subject description: thanks		  
Thanks for responding. There were other issues also, so I decided to go back to Lucid, it works better for me and my Toshiba.

However, on its worst day, linux is still better than Windows.

Also, I noticed that slackware uses fprot for viruses. On a scale of 1-10, how important is an anti-virus app with puppy?

Thanks,
Mary
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bigpup


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PostPosted: Sun 01 Jul 2012, 20:11    Post subject:  
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I noticed that slackware uses fprot for viruses. On a scale of 1-10, how important is an anti-virus app with puppy?

That is a highly debated question.
One thing that is certain. There are viruses in Linux. You can judge for yourself how important that fact is to you.
Linux malware
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_malware
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zippytex

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PostPosted: Mon 02 Jul 2012, 10:43    Post subject: virus
Subject description: protection		  
Well, I turned on the firewall and downloaded the f-prot and got it to run in terminal. No virus. Good to know. Thanks.
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bwh1969

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PostPosted: Thu 19 Jul 2012, 15:54    Post subject: hae issue as well  
Same issue and trying the acpi-tool-0.5.1 racy-5.3 version caused a lockup situation where the caplock button flashed rapidly and I had to to a hard shutdown. The "normal" acpitool .51 gives these results:

Code:
sh-4.1# acpitool -s
 Function Do_Suspend : could not open file : /proc/acpi/sleep.
 You must have write access to /proc/acpi/sleep to suspend your computer.
sh-4.1#


I found code for it and compiled it and I have the same issue.

lsmod, relevant modules: it looks like laptop modules for acpi are congruent to what I have seen in other distros (i.e. slightly older puppies, ubuntu 12.01)

eeepc_wmi 1720 0
asus_wmi 10796 1 eeepc_wmi


In /proc/acpi there is no "sleep" file:-( Something is either set up differently OR something is not loading as a needed module.

Code:
sh-4.1# cd /proc/acpi
sh-4.1# ls
ac_adapter  alarm  battery  button  event  wakeup
sh-4.1#
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