Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:46:08 -0500 (EST) From: Jonathan Smith <jonsmith@dragonstar.dhs.org> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apm and X Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008301945230.2768-100000@dragonstar.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <20000831004331.B25064@hand.dotat.at>
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zzz suspends and resumes just fine; the ONLY problem I have is hitting
dpms up to kill the X windows display to the vid card.
j.
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On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Tony Finch wrote:
> Jonathan Smith <jonsmith@dragonstar.dhs.org> wrote:
> >I'm running X 4 on 4.1-RELEASE and apm -z blanks the screen and puts the
> >machine to sleep happily, but when done from within X, the X descktop
> >stays on screen and the monitor doesn't blank out.
>
> Can you recover from this situation? My laptop hangs *hard* when I try
> to suspend from within X, so I wrote a small wrapper to switch to a
> text console before running `apm -z` which I keep in /usr/local/bin.
> You should also change /etc/apmd.conf to invoke this zzz rather than
> the standard one.
>
> Tony.
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>
>
> /*
> * zzz.c: a wrapper around apm(8) that works on my dodgy laptop
> *
> * (C) 2000 Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
> */
>
> static const char *const cvsid =
> "$Header: /cvs/fanf/zzz/zzz.c,v 1.1.1.1 2000/06/22 08:43:37 fanf Exp $";
>
> #include <sys/ioctl.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/wait.h>
>
> #include <machine/console.h>
>
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <err.h>
>
> int main() {
> int fd, vt, status;
>
> fd = open("/dev/vga", O_RDONLY);
> if(fd < 0) err(1, "open /dev/vga");
> if(ioctl(fd, VT_GETACTIVE, &vt) < 0)
> err(1, "ioctl VT_GETACTIVE");
> if(ioctl(fd, VT_ACTIVATE, 1) < 0)
> err(1, "ioctl VT_ACTIVATE");
> switch(fork()) {
> case -1:
> err(1, "fork");
> case 0:
> execl("/usr/sbin/apm", "apm", "-z", NULL);
> err(1, "exec apm -z");
> default:
> wait(&status);
> if(!WIFEXITED(status) || WEXITSTATUS(status))
> errx(1, "apm -z failed");
> }
> sleep(3);
> if(ioctl(fd, VT_ACTIVATE, vt) < 0)
> err(1, "ioctl VT_ACTIVATE");
> exit(0);
> }
>
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