Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 14:56:32 +0200 From: Jochen Keil <j.keil@gmx.de> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: vidcontrol, acpi lid and devd Message-ID: <20040507145632.560f4df0@chephren.lokal.lan>
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Hello List.
Short time ago i've read in an email from this list that it is possible to switch between the terminals with "vidcontrol -sX </dev/console".
This works fine for me.
The next step i took was modifying my /etc/devd.conf:
notify 10 {
match "system" "ACPI";
match "subsystem" "Lid";
action "/root/lid_switch $notify";
};
In /root/lid_switch i've written the following:
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
case $1 in
0x00)
vidcontrol -s1 </dev/console
;;
0x01)
vidcontrol -s9 </dev/console
;;
esac
So far everything just works great and the console is switched to ttyv1 when the lid switch is pressed.
But while holding the switch down for testing i recognized that the screen turns on after a certain time (around 4-5s).
This doesn't happen when i'm switching the console manually (ctrl-alt-F1).
I presume that the activity of switching to ttyv1 after disabling the display is to blame for turning it on again.
What i'd like to ask:
Is there a way to turn the screen of again by software e.g. sending a "Lid closed" statement to the appropriate device (/dev/acpi)?
It would be very nice if this could be easily implentend into my lid_switch script :)
However, any solution is appreciated.
Feel free to ask me if some facts are unclear or not mentioned.
Regards,
Jochen Keil
P.S. Would be running -current an option?
jochen@chephren ~> uname -a
FreeBSD chephren.lokal.lan 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 #3: Mon Mar 29 00:11:42 CEST 2004 jochen@chephren.lokal.lan:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CHEPHREN i386
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