enabling the "fn-f7" switch monitor functionality

[Eitan Adler]

# kldstat|grep acpi_ibm
12    1 0xc121d000 5244     acpi_ibm.ko
# tail -6 /etc/devd.conf
notify 0 {
      match "system"          "ACPI";
      match "subsystem"       "IBM";
      match "notify"          "0x07";
      action "/home/eitan/xbin/do-switch-screen.sh";
};

# ls -laod /home/eitan/xbin/do-switch-screen.sh
-rwxr-xr-x  1 eitan  eitan  - 88 Aug 16 10:57:05 2010
/home/eitan/xbin/do-switch-screen.sh*
% dmesg|tail
acpi_ec0: EcRead: failed waiting to get data
ACPI Exception: AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE, Returned by Handler for
[EmbeddedControl] (20100331/evregion-588)
ACPI Error (psparse-0633): Method parse/execution failed
[\\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.BAT1._BST] (Node 0xc6ad8d40),
AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE
acpi_ec0: EcRead: failed waiting to get data
ACPI Exception: AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE, Returned by Handler for
[EmbeddedControl] (20100331/evregion-588)
ACPI Error (psparse-0633): Method parse/execution failed
[\\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.BAT1._BST] (Node 0xc6ad8d40),
AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE
drm0: [ITHREAD]
acpi_ec0: EcRead: failed waiting to get data
ACPI Exception: AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE, Returned by Handler for
[EmbeddedControl] (20100331/evregion-588)
ACPI Error (psparse-0633): Method parse/execution failed
[\\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.BAT1._BST] (Node 0xc6ad8d40),
AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE

In the script I have "touch $0.ran" but the file does not get created.


Is there some program that would allow me to watch ACPI events? Is
there some way I could known that the key is 0x07?

>  Add
>
>  notify 0 {
>       match "system"          "ACPI";
>       match "subsystem"       "IBM";
>       match "notify"          "0x07";
>       action "/full/path/to/script";
> };
>
>  to /etc/devd.conf


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Eitan Adler