Re: acpi_video without suspending

On Friday 16 July 2004 6:56 am, Eric Anderson wrote:
> Brad Davis wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I have a Dell Inspirion 5150 running current from a few weeks ago and I'd
> >like to set it up so when I close the lid it doesn't go into suspend but
> >just turns off the display. I have set
> >
> >hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=S0
> >
> >Which effectively stops the machine from suspending. But since the display
> >doesn't go off its putting out quite a bit of heat into a very small
> >inclosed space.
>
> You could use devd, like this:
>
> Put this in /etc/devd.conf (or change as necessary):
> notify 10 {
>         match "system"          "ACPI";
>         match "subsystem"       "Lid";
>         action                  "/etc/rc.lid $notify";
> };
>
>
> and have /etc/rc.lid contain:
> sync && sync && sync
>
> if [ $1 = 0x00 ]; then
>         logger -t Lid Close at `date +'%Y%m%d %H:%M:%S'`
>         ( sleep 2 ; ataidle -s 0 0) &
>         sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active=0
> else
>         logger -t Lid Open at `date +'%Y%m%d %H:%M:%S'`
>         sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active=1
> fi
>
> Make sure your lid state is '1' on bootup.. You can just force it to 1
> if you need to in sysctl.conf or something..
>
> Eric

Hi Eric,

I have done this, but nothing happens. I don't get any entries into syslog 
after running devd -dD I get this:

hole# devd -dD
Parsing /etc/devd.conf
ethernet-nic-regex=(an|ar|ath|aue|awi|bfe|bge|cm|cnw|cs|cue|dc|de|ed|el|em|ep|
ex|fe|fxp|gem|gx|hme|ie|kue|lge|lnc|my|nge|pcn|ray|re|rl|rue|sf|sis|sk|sn|
snc|ste|ti|tl|tx|txp|vr|vx|wb|wi|xe|xl)[0-9]+
scsi-controller-regex=(adv|advw|aic|aha|ahb|ahc|ahd|bt|ct|iir|isp|mly|mpt|ncv|
nsp|stg|sym|wds)[0-9]+
Parsing files in /etc/devd
Parsing files in /usr/local/etc/devd

How would I enable devd on boot? I didn't see anything in the /etc/rc* 
scripts. I also don't see anything when I unplug the power to my laptop or 
close the lid from the debug output of devd.


Regards,
Brad Davis

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