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Newer page: version 6 Last edited on Thursday, May 31, 2007 4:39:50 am by AristotlePagaltzis
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 Some example uses: 
 * spinning down idle hard drives, 
 * telling a monitor to go into lower power mode (but different from [DPMS] for going into standby) 
 * making a machine go into standby or complete hibernation 
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 Many newer laptops use [ACPI] exclusively without support for [APM]. Linux kernel 2.4.x had some support for [ACPI], but kernel 2.6 should have much better support. 
  
-There is all kinds of interesting information inside ''/proc/acpi''  
-For example:  
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-Is my Laptop Lid open? : ''cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state''  
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-The State of your laptops battery : ''cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state''  
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- !acpi command  
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-This can tell you how much charge is left in your laptop battery and how long until it is depleted.  
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-Example Output:  
-* Battery 1: discharging, 96%, 02:34:16 remaining  
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+!! See also  
  
-See also: the [ACPI specification | http://www.acpi.info/] 
+* [ACPINotes]  
+* [The ACPI specification | http://www.acpi.info/]