APM Events and Win2k

[Ron]

About APM, this should work, i'm using off the self documented win32 API calls. The only thing i can think off is that either APM doesn't work correctly on your computer, or the user is not allowed to switch to APM.

Lock keyboard and mouse is difficult.

Screen blank/off -> set screen saver and let girder enable that.
Mute soundcard, -> supported by girder.

[Ron]

If anyone can point me in the directory of the ACPI counterpart of the APM Win32 functions i'll program them.

Ron

[Ron]

Please download the updated (1.2) version of the APM plugin. It should now work with win2k

[Mark F]

The screen saver could have a password, if you want to lock the keyboard and mouse.

[lesterjacobs]

Hi,

I've been trying to use the APM events plugin to suspend my win2k computer but it doesn't seem to work. Is the APM events generator compatible with win2k?

On another note, what I would really like to have is the option to not suspend win2k at but to make it "appear" to suspend i.e turn monitor off and mute sound and possibly lock the keyboard and mouse. This way my ATI TV program can record scheduled shows (it cannot wake the computer from suspend). Any possibility of doing this with Girder?

Thanks
Lester

[lesterjacobs]

Well I tried the APM stuff again and it still doesn't work. I am logged in as Administrator so permissions shouldn't be a problem. Also if I choose standby from the Shutdown menu or press the power button on my computer then it goes into standby normally. Therefore the standby functionality seems to be working fine on my computer. Only when I use the girder APM events plugin do I not get it to go into standby. All my other girder functions work fine.

So, any other suggestions? Does anyone definitely have this working on their win2k setup?

Cheers
Lester

[lesterjacobs]

Ok, I have some new information that might shed light on the problem. I've been doing some reading on the matter and it seems that there is a difference between APM and ACPI. Seems that win2k will deactivate APM in preference for ACPI if the BIOS fully supports ACPI. This means that win2k will not respond to APM commands if ACPI is available. Since my BIOS fully supports ACPI then could this be causing the problem? Would the APM plugin need to be enhanced to send ACPI commands so that ACPI only computers would work as well?

I'd write code to test this myself but I'm not a programmer. I'm planning on setting up a machine in the next few months and learning to code so that I can contribute to the girder plugin library though

Cheers
Lester

[lesterjacobs]

On 2001-09-30 05:47, RonB wrote:
Please download the updated (1.2) version of the APM plugin. It should now work with win2k


Thank you Ron. I'll try this out shortly and provide feedback on the results

Cheers
Lester

[Sarcophaguy]

Anyone have the solution for this? I'm having similar problems getting Girder to suspend in Win2K.

Is there any way to get Girder to suspend without using this plugin?