[laptop-mode] about laptop-mode

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

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On Sunday 03 May 2009 18:44:14 Bart Samwel wrote:
> Hi Guido,
>
> Wido wrote:
> > Hi! my name is Guido (but you may call mi wido). I'm a debian user for
> > a while and I've recently installed laptop-mode-tools (right now, I'm
> > with testing). I'm a laptop user since a couple years, having now a
> > thinkpad t61 (this is since last august).
> > After I installed laptop-mode, I started to check all conf files and
> > set it as I like (btw, cool files, very completes and clean), and as
> > soon as i get all that working, I restarted the laptop mode and tried
> > it.......nothing happened. I started digging and digging with the
> > scripts and the acpi calls....nothing. Then, I started reading the FAQ
> > and I got the light. I've been using hibernate for a while, so I'm not
> > used to reboot my laptop. Actually, I tend to not reboot it at all (in
> > case something doesn't work fine).
> > Quick answer, the ACPI daemon script needed to be restarted in order
> > to take the new scripts, otherwise it didn't work (trying to do some
> > black magic, i symlinked the lm-events to the original acpi events,
> > but that didn't worked either). After restarting acpi, everything
> > worked fine
>
> Hmmm, this sounds like acpid could use a SIGHUP at the end of the
> installation script. Ritesh, is this something you can try and add? I'm
> not even sure if the Debian package does that in postinst, and it does
> sound necessary...
>
You mean the package's postinst script ?
That'd solve only part of it.
IIUC, the user reports that after customizing and restarting LMT, the chang=
es=20
weren't reflected. In that case, we'll have to reload acpid also. Good thin=
g is=20
that acpid already has a reload command in its init file which sends a HUP.


Ritesh
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Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."


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