Re: Laptop lid switch and ACPI

2007-03-06 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:28:06 -0500 frzburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need a hint on how to get my screen turn off (backlight too) on my Dell Laptop. I have an Inspiron 6400 (e1505), and FreeBSD 6 - amd64. Hi there, I am not sure how to switch off the screen on the dell (independent of

Re: Laptop lid switch and ACPI

2007-03-06 Thread frzburn
Well, I thought about it, and you're right... What I really need is to be able to do something upon an acpi event, like running a script when I close my lid... But I didn't find these info anywhere =( Please help me! =) acpi is working, it has control on my fan and monitors my CPU temperature.

Re: Laptop lid switch and ACPI

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin Downey
On 3/6/07, frzburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I thought about it, and you're right... What I really need is to be able to do something upon an acpi event, like running a script when I close my lid... But I didn't find these info anywhere =( Please help me! =) acpi is working, it has

Re: Laptop lid switch and ACPI

2007-03-06 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 17:57:31 -0500 frzburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I didn't find these info anywhere =( Please help me! =) Kevin's email may have the answer for you. acpi is working, it has control on my fan and monitors my CPU temperature. I tried devd -dD, and it reacts when I close

Re: Laptop lid switch and ACPI

2007-03-06 Thread frzburn
THAT is exactly what I needed! A lot of thanks to both of you! =D frzburn On 3/6/07, Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/6/07, frzburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I thought about it, and you're right... What I really need is to be able to do something upon an acpi event, like

Re: Laptop lid switch and ACPI

2007-03-06 Thread frzburn
OK, so I'm half the way to what I want =/ All these things with acpi work well, but as I got a NVidia card _and_ FreeBSD in amd64, I can't install the NVidia drivers... So I can turn my screen blank with dpms, but the backlight stays on =( and this dpms stuff doesn't work in command-line... Do

Laptop lid switch and ACPI

2007-03-05 Thread frzburn
Hi folks! I need a hint on how to get my screen turn off (backlight too) on my Dell Laptop. I have an Inspiron 6400 (e1505), and FreeBSD 6 - amd64. That's all! Thanks! =) frzburn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list