From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 31 03:51:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8883A16A612 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 03:51:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E61B43D46 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 03:51:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 23287 invoked from network); 31 May 2006 13:51:02 +1000 Received: from 210-84-41-231.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO localhost) (210.84.41.231) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 31 May 2006 13:51:02 +1000 Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 13:50:59 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060531135059.4d725849@localhost> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.2.0 (GTK+ 2.8.18; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Morse + Thinklight is fun... but how do I stop it? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 03:51:08 -0000 yes, ok, it's a silly subject...but this is what happened. I found /usr/games/morse I realised it could talk to /dev/led/thinklight ( on a Thinkpad). I modified devfs to allow me to write to the led device I run morse -l SOS > /dev/led/thinklight and of course it started blinking asking for help... many laughs later, i decided that it was getting in the way of actually getting any work done... so i tried to figure out how to stop it from sending morse away... It just keeps going on and on... the only way to work around it right now is sending a Morse space (blank) - which switches it off, but if I want to actually use the light, then I can't because after a second it gets powered down too :-) What am I missing? (yes, i guess I could unload acpi_ibm and load again, but i'd like something more elegant...) (same goes for reboot). thanks!!! Beto