Re: Applications & ACPI events

Pavel Machek
2003-10-03T19:38:15Z

Hi!

> > When using ACPI to shutdown the machine to disk or memory, obviously an
> > application can read events from /proc/acpi/events to see what to do.
> >
> > How does ACPI in the kernel wait for applications to do what they
> > need to when receiving an ACPI event, as it seems the kernel shuts down
> > everything pretty quickly ?
>
> AFAIK, there is no support for suspending userspace drivers (like X).

Actually X get console switch event, so they should
give control of VGA to the kernel...
Pavel
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