[plug] Power down

Brad Campbell brad at wasp.net.au
Wed Jan 14 14:38:08 WST 2004


Brad Campbell wrote:
> 
> APM gets enabled by the kernel regardless (if you have APM compiled in 
> and you have a BIOS that supports APM).
> ACPI can do really cool things in combination like acpid, like have the 
> power switch trigger a software suspend instead of a powerdown.
> Or have the lid switch tied to swsusp or any other event based process.

Man I need some coffee, my coherency is somewhat lacking but I'm sure you get the idea.

Brad



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