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lsas

Member

Registered: 2010-11-23

Posts: 23

acpi action problem

Hi all

I've some problem with acpi action script...

First of all here there's my /etc/acpi/events/anything :

event=*
action=/etc/acpi/actions/ibm_hotkey.sh %e

and the ibm_hotkey.sh , founded on the internet with some personalization :

#!/bin/sh
# ACPI action for Thinkpad special keys.

case "$1" in
    ibm/hotkey)
case "$2" in
    HKEY)
      case "$4" in
            00001002) # Lock screen
                  logger "ACPI $2 $4 : Lock screen button pressed."
          qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver Lock
        ;;
        00001003) # Switching display off
                   xset dpms force off
        ;;
                00001004) # Sleep Mode
          logger "ACPI $2 $4 : Sleep button pressed."
            /usr/sbin/pm-suspend
        ;;
        #00001005) # Switch Bluetooth
                 #;;
        0001007) # Toggle external display
          if [ "$(xrandr -q | grep "VGA connected")" ]; then
              if [ "$(xrandr -q | grep "VGA connected [0-9]")" ]; then
                    xrandr --output VGA --off
                else
                xrandr --output VGA --auto
                fi
          else
            xrandr --output VGA --off
          fi
        ;;
        #00001008) # Toggle Trackpoint/Touchpad
        #;;
        #00001009) # Eject from dock
        #;;
        0000100c) # Hibernate
          logger "ACPI $2 $4 : Hibernate button pressed."
          /usr/sbin/pm-hibernate
        ;;
        00001011) # Brightness down
          CUR="xbacklight -get"
          CUR="echo $CUR | awk '{print $1-5}'"
          xbacklight -set $CUR
        ;;
        00001012) # Brightness up
          CUR=`xbacklight -get`
          CUR="echo $CUR | awk '{print $1+5}'"
          xbacklight -set $CUR
        ;;
        #00001014) # Toggle zoom
        #;;
        #00001018) # ThinkVantage button
          #;;
        *) logger "ACPI action undefined for $2 / $4" ;;
      esac
    ;;

    *) logger "ACPI group/action undefined: $1 / $2" ;;
esac
    *) logger "ACPI group/action undefined: $1 / $2" ;;
esac

Now when i try to lock the screen with Fn + F2  it doesnt work.
The first thing i've tought was the acpi code for that key was wrong, but doing acpi_listen and pressing Fn+F2 it returns : ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001002

I've also tried with the Fn + F4, ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001004 . The system go into sleep mode, but in the log i cant see the string "ACPI Sleep button pressed."
So it seems like if other programs are catching the actions.

In my system i've also installed laptop-mode-tools, cpufrequtils, and pm-utils. Maybe there's some kind of conflict between these packages ??

Any advices ?
Many thanks to all anyway.

twilight0

Member

From: Greece

Registered: 2011-05-01

Posts: 227

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Re: acpi action problem

No there is no conflict between the packages... does xev report events for those keys? If the answer is yes you can bind them through your DE's settings or manually with xmodmap to do anything you like.

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