Configuring ACPI to do useful things?

[Dexter Ang]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 23:53, Ron Palmer wrote:
> 
>>I am at the same spot as Brian... the script file is pretty empty beyond
>>the provided shut-down/power button. Is there anyone that can add a few
>>suggestions on how we can ad a event such as hybernation/stand-by? Any
>>suggestions would be welcome.
> 
> 
> I have a script that will turn off the display when the lid is closed
> and hibernate when the magic key is pressed as well as something to
> actually determine if the laptop's running on battery and then hard-tune
> cpufreq to lowest freq etc.
> 
> Mail me off-line if more info is needed.

What laptop are you using? I'm running a Thinkpad T30 and would love to 
know exactly how to turn off my LCD through software. Plus any other 
useful acpid scripts you may have that can be tested with FC2.

dex