Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 21:37:51 +1000 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Rene Schickbauer <cavac@magicbooks.org> Subject: Re: RFC: powerd Patch & proposed future changes Message-ID: <200907062137.52621.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <18510.213.150.228.38.1246864978.squirrel@mail.magicbooks.org> References: <18510.213.150.228.38.1246864978.squirrel@mail.magicbooks.org>
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--nextPart9377106.N4SKKcU5Jh Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Rene Schickbauer wrote: > Would it also make sense to have powerd run an (optional) user > configureable script on ac state change? I'm thinking about things > like dimming TFT backlight, on EEE PC turning of the webcam and so > on. devd can already do this.. Create a file for /usr/local/etc/devd (doesn't matter what it's called) with this in it.. notify 10 { match "system" "ACPI"; action "/usr/local/bin/acpi-ev $system $subsystem $type $notify"; }; The script will be called with "ACPI ACAD _SB_.AC__ 0x00" on power failure= =20 and "ACPI ACAD _SB_.AC__ 0x01" when connected. (It is easy to call logger $0 $* in your script to check various events out= =2E. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart9377106.N4SKKcU5Jh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBKUeIQ5ZPcIHs/zowRAt5PAJ4zX3xRuL2m8t0ceXz4xg1LL0ZjxgCfYB0A Qc+ZS3Xzkx4xEkhOCb7I48E= =5B/p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart9377106.N4SKKcU5Jh--
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