Re: [ACPI-sppt] acpi power event

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 07:01, Derek Broughton wrote:
> From: "Jack Coates" <[email protected]>
> 
> > /etc/acpi/events/power :
> > # change screen brightness and CPU speed
> > event=ac_adapter.*
> > action=/etc/acpi/actions/powerchange
> >
> >
> > /etc/acpi/actions/powerchange
> > #!/bin/sh
> > status=`sed "s/state: *//" /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ACAD/state`
> > case $status in
> >         "on-line"       )       /usr/bin/spicctrl -b 255
> >                                 exit 0
> >                                 ;;
> >         "off-line"      )       /usr/bin/spicctrl -b 100
> >                                 exit 0
> >                                 ;;
> >         esac
> > echo "Something bad happened!"
> > exit 1
> >
> > The power button > halt-dialog thing works nicely. If I run
> > /etc/acpi/actions/powerchange manually, it works properly. But it
> > doesn't catch the event on a regular basis. Is there a typo in
> > /etc/acpi/events/power that I'm just not seeing?
> >
> I'm not sure I understand your problem.  What's spicctrl do?  Are you saying
> that if you unplug power, instead of running powerchange it runs default.sh
> (which would probably produce messages like that)?  If so, you must be defining
> some other event that invokes default.sh before this one that invokes
> powerchange (it certainly looks as though this rule should invoke powerchange).
> 
> derek

Sorry -- the problem is that ACPI ac_adapter events aren't triggering
the script.

spicctrl adjusts screen brightness on my laptop. Idea is to decrease
brightness when using battery.

I don't have an /etc/acpi/default.sh at all, and nothing in
/etc/acpi/events is calling it anymore... Here's a question though. How
are events matched? Do the file names in /etc/acpi/events matter at all?
Would a single match file make more sense than separate battery, button
& power files? That would make it easier to specify a fall-through
action (logger "handler for event foobar not defined").

thanks,
-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html



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