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OneEyedPimp

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Registered: 2008-05-02

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ACPI button/lid problem

Hello all,

I have been running Arch on this laptop for quite some time now. Recently though I had to do a reinstall of it because I messed it up while trying to do something. Anyway, I got everything working except for the lid problem, i have the age old when I close it, it freezes. I have installed ACPI and it recognizes the Lid event, however it is still frozen I checked the /var/log/messages.log and this is what showed up:

Jun 19 11:33:12 UsbArch logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video / VID1
Jun 19 11:33:12 UsbArch logger: ACPI group/action undefined: video / VID

All I can tell is that it doesnt recognize the laptop screen or something. On the last install acpi worked like a charm, I dont know why it is not working now. Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you, Levi.

timetrap

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Re: ACPI button/lid problem

I bet it does not freeze.

Test it, follow these steps exactly as they are written:

Start xwindows
open a terminal
close the lid
open the lid
wait for a second
then type this

xset dpms force on

then press enter

Your monitor should come back on.

If this works you will need to edit your /etc/acpi/actions/lm_lid.sh file

also make sure that you install laptop_mode and acpid

here is the content of my lm_lid.sh

#!/bin/sh

test -f /usr/sbin/laptop_mode || exit 0

#lid button pressed/released event handler
#From: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Automatically_turn_off_your_monitor 

if grep -q open /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state
then
        XAUTHORITY="$( ps -C xinit f|sed 's/.*-auth \(.*\)serverauth.*/\1Xauthority/p' )" /usr/bin/xset -display :0.0 dpms force on
        /usr/sbin/laptop_mode auto
        /usr/bin logger dpms force on
else
        XAUTHORITY="$( ps -C xinit f| sed -n 's/.*-auth \(.*\)serverauth.*/\1Xauthority/p' )" /usr/bin/xset -display :0.0 dpms force off
       /usr/bin logger dpms force off
fi

Last edited by timetrap (2008-06-20 20:20:51)

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OneEyedPimp

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Re: ACPI button/lid problem

Thank you very much for the response. Right away what you posted didnt work, but I figured out why. First I had to install laptop-mode-tools and then enable laptop-mode in the daemons line in rc.conf. Then it still didn't work then I got to thinking about /etc/acpi/actions/lm_lid.sh and the first line in it it was causing the script to not execute:

test -f /usr/bin/laptop_mode || exit 0

That file did not exist so it was exiting. I changed it to:

test -f /usr/sbin/laptop_mode || exit 0

and it works like a charm. Thank you for your response.

timetrap

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Re: ACPI button/lid problem

Sure thing;

For way more cool hacks check this link out: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Automatica … ur_monitor

Those gentoo kids are crazy.

Edit: I fixed the lm_lid.sh example above. Must have fat fingered it.

Last edited by timetrap (2008-06-20 20:22:07)

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