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I tested both, APM and ACPI but settled with ACPI which now works like a charm. | I tested both, APM and ACPI but settled with ACPI which now works like a charm. | ||
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− | + | ACPI will make your system use about 10% less power than with apm, which reduces my battery runtime from ~4:00h to 3:40h. | |
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− | + | Please read "[[How to make use of Power Management features]]" for more in depth information. | |
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− | + | Unfortunately, if ACPI is used, hibernate and standby modes might not work with a CompactFlash card inserted. Read the [[Category_talk:X31|X31 Talk Page]] for further info. | |
===Disabling ACPI and using APM=== | ===Disabling ACPI and using APM=== |
Revision as of 09:14, 30 August 2006
Contents
Preface
The content of this page was originally geared toward Hoary (Ubuntu 5.04), but nearly everything here applies just as well to the Warty (4.10) and Breezy (5.10) releases.
See Henrik Brix Andersens page for a lot of useful background information.
Installing without cdrom or floppy
Look here or follow the Netboot remarks instructions at Ubuntu Wiki.
Enabling the Access IBM Button and on-screen display for volume buttons
Install the tpb package (use Synaptic or $sudo apt-get install tpb), then use the Users and Groups Administration tool to add your user account to the 'nvram' group. Now see Access IBM Button for configuration details.
Choosing between APM and ACPI for power management
I tested both, APM and ACPI but settled with ACPI which now works like a charm.
Since Ubuntu Dapper (6.06LTS) ACPI works out of the box, either in Standby Mode or Suspend to Disk Mode. ACPI will make your system use about 10% less power than with apm, which reduces my battery runtime from ~4:00h to 3:40h.
Please read "How to make use of Power Management features" for more in depth information.
Unfortunately, if ACPI is used, hibernate and standby modes might not work with a CompactFlash card inserted. Read the X31 Talk Page for further info.
Disabling ACPI and using APM
Simply disabling ACPI at boottime activates APM which works fine with suspend to ram and suspend to disk.
To disable ACPI boot your kernel with acpi=off
...describe how to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst...
APM based suspend to disk needs a save2disk.img hibernation file on FAT16. Use the tphdisk utility to create this file.
Use FnF4 to suspend-to-ram and FnF12 to suspend-to-disk.
Using ACPI
Get ubuntulinux, radeontool and this script (which goes in /etc/acpi), nothing more!
$ cat lid.sh
#!/bin/sh . /usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs getXuser; grep -q closed /proc/acpi/button/lid/*/state if [ $? = 0 ] then . /usr/share/acpi-support/screenblank echo `fgconsole` > $LIDSTATE chvt 12 # Unmount any NFS or SMB filesystems: echo "unmounting NFS and SMB filesystems" umount -a -r -t nfs,smbfs # remove modules echo "remove modules" #rmmod ipw2100 ## WLAN rmmod ehci-hcd ## USB module rmmod uhci-hcd ## -||- # update the disk super block echo "sync" sync # wait a second sleep 1 # turn the LCD off echo "backlight off" radeontool light off # suspend to ram echo "suspend to ram" echo -n mem > /sys/power/state # load modules modprobe ehci-hcd modprobe uhci-hcd # turn the LCD on echo "turn the LCD on" radeontool light on # go back to VT7 (X) echo "back to VT7" chvt 7 else grep -q off-line /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/*/state #if [ $? = 1 ] #then #su - $user -c "xscreensaver-command -unthrottle" #fi chvt `cat $LIDSTATE` fi