Leo L. Schwab wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:19:24PM +0100, Bart Samwel wrote: >> Hmmm, are you saying that you aren't running acpid? > > Correct. Since /proc/acpi/event has been deprecated since at least > 2.6.24, 'acpid' just plain won't work. Ergo, acpi-support won't work, and > neither will anything that plugs into that framework. ACPI events are now > broadcast over the regular kernel input event system, which get picked up by > HAL and friends. > >> Because >> laptop-mode-tools is supposed to be triggered by acpid scripts. > > And, back when /proc/acpi/event still existed, those scripts ran for > me just great. No longer. Hence, my new script.
Fair enough. :-) Thanks for explaining, I wasn't aware that this stuff was going away so soon. I'm just wondering about how I'm going to prevent *double* calls to laptop-mode-tools here -- or perhaps it just doesn't matter if I add locking so that simultaneous calls don't bite eachother. Cheers, Bart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
