-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jacob, When you tried putting the entire strings in, did you quote them or escape the spaces? Chuck On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Jacob Schmude wrote: > Hi all > Well, I got linux on my new laptop and got all the hardware > working. I wound up putting slackware on and not Fedora, since the > performance of Fedora on the laptop was extremely slow and I couldn't > figure out why. Yes, I checked the CPU frequency scaling governors and > they were set to performance, but it still ran slow. Anyway, I got slack > on and it's running fine, except for ACPI. I can't get the regexp for some > of my events correct. What I want to do is for it to start laptop mode > when the AC adapter is unplugged, and to stop laptop mode when the AC is > plugged in. I've gotten it partially working--it will stop laptop mode > when the AC is plugged in. However, I can't seem to get it to start laptop > mode when the AC is unplugged. The relevant lines from my > /etc/acpi/events/events.conf are: > event=ac_adapter.*00 > action=/usr/local/bin/startlt > event=ac_adapter.*01 > action=/usr/local/bin/stoplt > Startlt and stoplt are custom scripts I've written to turn on > laptop mode and set the correct HD parameters for standby and such, and to > adjust the powersave governors correctly. It's the first event that > doesn't work, and I'm stuck as to why. I've tried everything I could think > of, including putting the entire text of the relevant events in--but if I > do that then none of them work. events.conf is a file I created to > override slackware's default acpi-handler.sh script, which doesn't work > properly on my machine. Can anyone help here? The complete text for both > events is: > ac_adapter AC 00000080 00000000 > ac_adapter AC 00000080 00000001 > The first event is what is generated when the AC is unplugged, the > second is what is generated when it's plugged in. The only thing different > about them is the final digit, which is what I'm trying to work with. Can > anyone help with this? If worse comes to worse, I'll use APM, but I'm not > sure how good this laptop's APM support is as it was primarily designed > for ACPI. > THX > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > - -- The Moon is New My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQNIsdTVdG8M9x9tGAQLlIwP9EkOGFYWNVIyB6yoqETduCHzoUM0IdaL5 lNrnADl4jBO24IrXq1ioY/uQTNwtx8Yyh3L/AAGpKKre5G2noPXBhch1/C/P8/sN ZHWy6QXG76kDKiD9HWMYzHEAOfms8C0j67gJ8Qwo8U6wQPzNqFl4V6OjTKpXjPfk qjnnK652IWc= =3/d6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
