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removed the information about the acpi application and replaced it with generic 'get a monitoring program' note

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<revhistory>
<revision>
<revnumber>v1.6</revnumber>
<date>2004-07-21</date>
<date>2004-07-23</date>
<authorinitials>ejh</authorinitials>
<revremark>Spelling mistakes fixed, converted the bibliography to nicer DocBook, added a glossary, and updated the information on the 2.6 kernel and random freezes.</revremark>
<revremark>Spelling mistakes fixed, converted the bibliography, added a glossary, moved step-by-step instructions to procedures in examples, and updated the information on the 2.6 kernel and random freezes.</revremark>
</revision>
<revision>
<revnumber>v1.5.1</revnumber>
@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ directory for the newly patched kernel. You should create a backup of all import
</sect2>
<sect2 id="kernelprep">
<title>Download and Unpack the New Kernel</title>
<title>Download and unpack the kernel source</title>
<sect3 id="requiredpackages">
<title>Required packages</title>
@ -804,42 +804,30 @@ dot-o) on a separate line. You can also try running
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="apm2acpi" xreflabel="Switching from APM to ACPI">
<sect1 id="usingacpi" xreflabel="Using ACPI">
<?dbhtml filename="usingacpi.html"?>
<title>Using ACPI</title>
<para>There are a few different applications/daemons you will want to install
on your system: <application>acpid</application> (the daemon that will control your hardware states), and a monitoring program. I personally use <application>wmacpi</application>. There are lots to choose from in <xref linkend="ref-software"/>.
<sect2 id="apm2acpi" xreflabel="Switching from APM to ACPI">
<?dbhtml filename="apm2acpi.html"?>
<title>Switching from APM to ACPI</title>
<para>Do not let <application>apmd</application> and
<application>acpid</application> run at the same time unless you REALLY know
what you are doing. Debian will <emphasis>not</emphasis> make sure only one is running
at a time. You will have to check.
APM will try to put your system into S3. On the 2.4.x (and before) series
kernels this will quite probably hang your machine. S3 is not supported
at a time. You will have to check.</para>
<para>APM will try to put your system into S3. On the 2.4.x (and before) series
kernels this will probably cause your machine to lock up. S3 is not supported
until at least 2.5.x. Even the patch will not provide support for S3 in the
2.4.x series kernels. I personally did an <command>apt-get remove apmd</command>
to solve the hanging problem.</para>
</sect1>
2.4.x series kernels. I completely removed APM support from the kernel, and removed the <application>apmd</application> daemon from my system. On Debian this was as easy as <command>apt-get remove apmd</command>.</para>
</sect2>
<sect1 id="usingacpi" xreflabel="Using ACPI">
<?dbhtml filename="usingacpi.html"?>
<title>Using ACPI</title>
<para>There are a few different applications/daemons you will want to install
on your system: <application>acpid</application> (the daemon that will control your hardware states), and <application>acpi</application> (the interface to monitor events and states) are the base install. The
<application>acpi</application> Debian package is only available in testing and is unstable. If
you are running stable you will not be able to install it without playing
around with apt and your <filename>list.sources</filename> file. You can probably
also compile from source. If you do get <application>acpi</application>
installed you can use it to monitor your system like this: <command>acpi
<option>-V</option></command>. The output will tell you about your
system. Mine looks like this:</para>
<screen>
Thermal 1: ok, 47.1 degrees C
Thermal 2: ok, 45.1 degrees C
AC Adapter 1: off-line &lt;-- running off battery
AC Adapter 1: on-line &lt;-- running off AC power
</screen>
<para>Unfortunately, the <option>-V</option> <quote>full version</quote> does not work for me.
Fortunately I can still look in each of the acpi files individually for
information about my system. Check in the <filename
<para>You can also look in each of the ACPI files individually for
information about your system. Look in the <filename
class="directory">/proc/acpi</filename> directory
for various things of importance. If I want to check my battery I read the
following file like this: <command>cat
@ -891,7 +879,8 @@ battery type: Lion
OEM info: Acer
</screen>
<para>You are smart people. You can probably figure it out from here. :)</para>
<para>For more information on each of these files, please read <ulink url="http://acpi.sourceforge.net/documentation/index.html" />.</para>
</sect1>