Re: Gentoo on Vaios

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 11:11, Tom Payne wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I'm a Gentoo developer and a Vaio user.
> 
> I'm thinking of putting together a virtual sony-vaio ebuild. This would have
> the effect that
> 	emerge sony-vaio
> would emerge packages considered useful for Vaio users. It would do this by
> simply depending on them.
> 
> Here's my preliminary list of packages:
> 
> 	net-dialup/hsflinmodem
> 	sys-apps/acpid
> 	app-misc/sonypid
> 	app-misc/spicctrl
> 	app-misc/tpconfig
> 	sys-apps/usbd
> 	sys-apps/hotplug
> 	app-admin/gkrellm
> 	x11-plugins/gkacpi
> 	x11-plugins/gkrellm-vaiobright
> 	net-wireless/gkrellmwireless
> 
> Anything I've forgotten?
> Anything I should add?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tom

rsjog is crucial for me. i810switch is handy too.

Also, there are those who don't use gkrellm for whatever reason, but use
wmacpi, kacpi, &c to keep an eye on status.

Finally, the delete key and power button are awfully close to each
other. Something like this would be handy in a pre-built distro:
[jack@chupacabra jack]$ cat /usr/local/sbin/halt-dialog 
#!/bin/sh

export DISPLAY=":0.0"
RESULTS=`Xdialog --screen-center --default-no --yesno "The system is
about to shut down, do you want to continue?" 10 50`
EXIT_CODE=$?
case $EXIT_CODE in
        0) /sbin/halt
        ;;
        1) exit
        ;;
        255) exit
        ;;
esac

I've been working on a similar one for the Fn keys -- here's my Fn-F7
for instance (still needs detection of current state):
[jack@chupacabra jack]$ cat /usr/local/sbin/i810-dialog 
#!/bin/sh

export DISPLAY=":0.0"
Xdialog --screen-center --separator " " --checklist "i810switch control"
18 50 0 "lcd on" "LCD on?" ON "lcd off" "LCD off?" OFF "crt on" "CRT
on?" OFF "crt off" "CRT off?" OFF 2> /tmp/checklist.tmp.$$
EXIT_CODE=$?
CHOICE=`cat /tmp/checklist.tmp.$$`
rm -f /tmp/checklist.tmp.$$
case $EXIT_CODE in
        0) i810switch $CHOICE
        ;;
        1) exit
        ;;
        255) exit
        ;;
esac


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Jack Coates
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