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Package: acpi-support (0.109-11)

scripts for handling many ACPI events

This package contains scripts to react to various ACPI events. It only includes scripts for events that can be supported with some level of safety cross platform.

It is able to: 

 * Detect loss and gain of AC power, lid closure, and the press of a
   number of specific buttons (on Asus, IBM, Lenovo, Panasonic, Sony
   and Toshiba laptops).
 * Suspend, hibernate and resume the computer, with workarounds for
   hardware that needs it.
 * On some laptops, set screen brightness.

Tags: System Administration: Hardware Support, Power Management, Hardware Enablement: Laptop, Power Management, ACPI Power Management, Implemented in: C, sh, bash, ksh, tcsh and other shells, Role: Program, Purpose: Hardware Driver

Other Packages Related to acpi-support

  • depends
  • recommends
  • suggests
  • dep: acpi-support-base (>= 0.109-1)
    scripts for handling base ACPI events such as the power button
  • dep: acpid (>= 1.0.4)
    Utilities for using ACPI power management
  • dep: dmidecode (>= 2.7-1)
    Dump Desktop Management Interface data
  • dep: finger
    user information lookup program
  • dep: hdparm
    tune hard disk parameters for high performance
  • dep: laptop-detect
    attempt to detect a laptop
  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.7-1) [not ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
  • dep: libc6.1 (>= 2.7-1) [ia64]
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6.1-udeb
  • dep: lsb-base (>= 1.3-9)
    Linux Standard Base 3.2 init script functionality
  • dep: powermgmt-base
    Common utils and configs for power management
  • dep: vbetool [not ia64]
    run real-mode video BIOS code to alter hardware state
  • dep: x11-xserver-utils
    X server utilities
  • rec: dbus
    simple interprocess messaging system
  • rec: hal
    Hardware Abstraction Layer
  • rec: nvclock
    Allows you to overclock your nVidia card under GNU/Linux
  • rec: pm-utils
    utilities and scripts for power management
  • rec: radeontool
    utility to control ATI Radeon backlight functions on laptops
  • rec: toshset [i386]
    Access much of the Toshiba laptop hardware interface

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Download for all available architectures
Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 52.8 kB948 kB [list of files]
i386 52.5 kB944 kB [list of files]
ia64 52.1 kB948 kB [list of files]