"doing" things to HAL devices

[David Eriksson]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 12:08 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> I'm at a stage with GNOME Power Manager where I want to "do" events, for instance
> 
> Computer:Shutdown
> Computer:Hibernate
> 
> There's no facility in HAL to do this for power devices, and wanted to know
> suggestions or comments about how this should be done.
> 
> For instance, for acpi:
> To sleep: echo "sleep" > /sys/power
> To shutdown: shutdown -h now
> 
> I've no idea for APM or PMU. Sjoerd?

Shutdown is the same with APM. To sleep:

  apm --suspend

or 

  apmsleep 


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