From: vjensen@gmx.de   
      
   Hej!   
      
   I'm running gentoo on my Thinkpad R51e which works real fine.  WLAN,   
   Ethernet, Sound, Suspend to RAM, Video (I only need 2D), etc, no problem.   
   But I have a hard time optimising life on battery.  For starters the switch   
   from ac to battery doesn't lead to execution of scripts in /etc/acpi :-(   
      
   How do I debug this?  It seems acpid never reports the switch as event:   
      
   Apr 18 08:53:55 asterix acpid: received event "processor CPU 00000081   
   00000000"   
   Apr 18 08:53:55 asterix acpid: notifying client 4346[104:443]   
   Apr 18 08:53:55 asterix acpid: notifying client 4669[0:0]   
   Apr 18 08:53:55 asterix acpid: client has disconnected   
   Apr 18 08:53:55 asterix acpid: notifying client 4669[0:0]   
   Apr 18 08:53:55 asterix acpid: client has disconnected   
   Apr 18 08:53:55 asterix acpid: completed event "processor CPU 00000081   
   00000000"   
   Apr 18 08:53:55 asterix acpid: client connected from 4669[0:0]   
   Apr 18 08:53:55 asterix acpid: 1 client rule loaded   
   Apr 19 01:34:16 asterix acpid: client connected from 13718[0:0]   
   Apr 19 01:34:16 asterix acpid: 1 client rule loaded   
   Apr 19 08:39:10 asterix acpid: received event "processor CPU 00000081   
   00000000"   
   Apr 19 08:39:10 asterix acpid: notifying client 4346[104:443]   
   Apr 19 08:39:10 asterix acpid: notifying client 4669[0:0]   
   Apr 19 08:39:10 asterix acpid: notifying client 13718[0:0]   
   Apr 19 08:39:10 asterix acpid: completed event "processor CPU 00000081   
   00000000"   
   Apr 19 08:39:10 asterix acpid: client connected from 4669[0:0]   
   Apr 19 08:39:10 asterix acpid: 1 client rule loaded   
      
   01:34 was start of suspend-to-RAM and 08:39 the resume.  There are never any   
   other events logged!  I've added logger lines to the scripts   
   in /etc/acpi/actions (from laptop mode) but those aren't executed.   
      
   The state variable in /proc/acpi report the switch just fine:   
      
   vitus@asterix:~$ cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state   
   state:                   on-line   
   vitus@asterix:~$ cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state   
   state:                   off-line   
   vitus@asterix:~$ cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC/state   
   state:                   on-line   
      
   Module thinkpad_acpi is loaded, controlling fan, volume and brightness   
   works.  Where do I start investigating?  acpid, hald, thinkpad_acpi?   
      
   Vitus   
      
   PS: thing is this notebook can't really save power (celeron-m, atheros w/o   
   powersave mode), but this is another story.   
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   Vitus Jensen, Hannover, Germany, Earth, Milky Way, Universe (current)   
      
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