Re: Applications & ACPI events

Ducrot Bruno
2003-10-06T12:49:35Z

On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:38:15PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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...

Exactly, you have to switch to a console. That's the problem.

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