[plug] APM, sleep, and extra keyboard buttons

[I am the LinuxAlien]

Is there an easy way with out a kernel recompile. Is still haven't managed 
to compile a kernel yet. The bios is 3 years old(99) so i will look for an 
update. I need a floppy drive though as far as i know. As for powering down 
my system, I have apmd installed. With the keyboard, is there a similar 
file for a vtt?
Tim
At 11:46 11/08/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 09:49:24 +0800, I am the LinuxAlien wrote:
>
>| When I put it to sleep it immediately wakes up and when i put it into
>| standby i can't wake it up.
>| I just tried to put it to sleep and apm exit with the below error
>|
>| APIC error on CPU0: 00(40)
>
>Many motherboards (in fact, almost all that I've seen) have completely 
>broken APM support. When you try to put them to suspend or sleep, they 
>either wake up straight away or never come out again. (In a couple of 
>Athlon motherboards, it was necessary to remove power to the machine for a 
>few seconds and then plug it in again before it would wake up.)  This 
>happens in both Linux and Windows.
>
>To get a machine to power down nicely when you run shutdown, normally you 
>have to fiddle with the APM configuration in the kernel. You might also 
>need to have apmd running.  Here's the combination that works on my machine:
>
>CONFIG_PM=y
># CONFIG_ACPI is not set
>CONFIG_APM=y
># CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
>CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
># CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set
># CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set
># CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT is not set
># CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set
># CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set
>
>You might need to turn REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF on. This is what Windows does.
>
>Don't enable ACPI, in my experience it doesn't work at all under Linux. 
>(My machine panicked on boot with ACPI compiled into the kernel.)
>
>A BIOS upgrade /might/ help.  A BIOS upgrade /might/ leave you with a 
>broken machine.
>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>| I have a power, wakeup and sleep button on my new key board ( i just
>| went shopping) how do i get these to work?
>
>It all depends on what you mean by, 'work'. (-:
>
>You need to tell X that they exist using xmodmap. Fire up an xterm and run 
>xev.  Focus the xev window, and press each key that you want to get 
>working.  It should spit out something like:
>
>KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,
>     root 0x79, subw 0x0, time 2539066450, (380,337), root:(533,448),
>     state 0x0, keycode 160 (keysym 0xffcb, F14), same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 0 characters:  ""
>
>KeyRelease event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x2c00001,
>     root 0x79, subw 0x0, time 2539066564, (380,337), root:(533,448),
>     state 0x0, keycode 160 (keysym 0xffcb, F14), same_screen YES,
>     XLookupString gives 0 characters:  ""
>
>(In this case, it's the "mail" button on my Logitech 'internet' keyboard, 
>which I've mapped to F14.)  Note the keycode that xev tells you for each 
>button - in that case, 160.  You need to add some stuff to the end of your 
>/etc/X11/Xmodmap to map the keycodes that xev tells you into keys that X 
>understands. I used extra F-keys that X supports but my keyboard doesn't have:
>
>         (for a Logitech keyboard)
>keycode 223 = F13
>keycode 160 = F14
>keycode 174 = F15
>keycode 176 = F16
>keycode 162 = F17
>keycode 164 = F18
>keycode 144 = F19
>keycode 153 = F20
>keycode 236 = F21
>keycode 229 = F22
>keycode 178 = F23
>keycode 230 = F24
>
>         (for a Microsoft keyboard)
>keycode 234 = F13
>keycode 233 = F14
>keycode 232 = F15
>keycode 236 = F16
>keycode 229 = F17
>keycode 230 = F18
>keycode 178 = F19
>keycode 235 = F20
>keycode 161 = F21
>keycode 223 = F22
>
> From there, you can use KDE (or whatever WM you use) to map these extra 
> keys to do something useful.  In my case, I have F13 (sleep) bound to 
> starting an Xterm, the Mail button starts Sylpheed, the "Home" button 
> starts Mozilla, and so on.
>
>CP.

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