I have a Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 that I use for situations where I don’t want to take my regular office-ish notebook. I am planning to take and use it at the 2011 Eagle Cap Extreme event for digital communications. I run Ubuntu on it (10.10 currently) which works mostly out of the box without any trouble. However, a couple of the ACPI events don’t work; specifically the suspend and hibernate buttons. I ran acpid in debug mode and it appears that the event IDs are different on the toughbook from what they are on most other manufacturers.
If you look in /etc/acpi/events, you’ll see that there are several per-manufacturer configuration files for catching their uniquely-identified events and plumbing them to the correct scripts. By copying and modifying two of these, I was able to get my buttons to work.
From a terminal (or Alt+F2 Run prompt), type
gksudo gedit /etc/acpi/events/tb-sleep
and paste the following in the resulting blank editor window:
event=pcc HKEY 00000080 00000007
action=/etc/acpi/sleepbtn.sh
Save and close and then run
gksudo gedit /etc/acpi/events/tb-hibernate
and paste the following:
event=pcc HKEY 00000080 0000000a
action=/etc/acpi/hibernate.sh
Then, either reboot your machine or run sudo service acpid restart to make the changes active. When you press your (Fn+) suspend or hibernate keys, the system should now react accordingly.
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