Dell M4400 && power-off the display on Lid close (8-CURRENT / Xorg)

[Mark Andrews]

In message <20090908144050.GA6014 at current.Sisis.de>, Matthias Apitz writes:
> El día Tuesday, September 08, 2009 a las 10:21:23AM +0200, Lars Engels escribió
> :
> 
> > > but they are not estimated in /etc/devd.conf. Any hint for a good
> > > devd.conf entry to make that working? Thx in advance
> > > 
> > > Btw: I don't want suspend/resume.
> > 
> > Try this:
> > 
> > notify 10 {
> > 	match "system"		"ACPI";
> > 	match "subsystem"	"Lid";
> > 	action"$PATH_TO_YOUR_SCRIPT $notify";
> > };
> > 
> > And in your script you turn off the backlight with
> > xbacklight -set 0
> > when notify is 0x00 and
> > xbacklight -set 100
> > for 0x01.
> 
> Thanks for your hint; I'm using since some time now:
> 
> cat /usr/local/etc/devd/lid.conf
> #
> # When the the Lid is open / closed ....
> #
> # <guru at unixarea.de>, August 2009
> #
> notify 10 {
>         match "system"          "ACPI";
>         match "subsystem"       "Lid";
>         match "notify"          "0x00";
>         action                  "/usr/local/bin/xset -display :0.0 s 1";
> };
> notify 10 {
>         match "system"          "ACPI";
>         match "subsystem"       "Lid";
>         match "notify"          "0x01";
>         action                  "/usr/local/bin/xset -display :0.0 s
> 120";
> };
> 
> Thx

I call this on lid events which works even when X isn't running. :-)

Mark

notify 10 {
        match "system"          "ACPI";
        match "subsystem"       "Lid";
        action "/etc/rc.lid $notify";
};

/etc/rc.lid:
#!/bin/sh
# deal with lid switch events

if [ "x$1" = x0x00 ]; then
        /usr/bin/logger -t Lid Closed at `/bin/date`
        /sbin/sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active=0
else
        /usr/bin/logger -t Lid Opened at `/bin/date`
        /sbin/sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active=1
fi

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