Re: acpi_video without suspending

Brad Davis wrote:

>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.
>  
>

Woops - forgot that step.. try adding this to /etc/rc.conf:

devd_enable="YES"

Does that help?

Eric


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