jesus_arocho on 25 Oct 2005 21:19:14 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Bucks County LUG


Thanks, I will try this tonight.


> 
> I just went through this on gentoo.  If you're using acpi
> (http://www.acpi.info/) then acpid is the way to go.  My bet
> is that if you install acpid (probably an RPM that comes with Matndriva)
> you'll likely be all set.  If you're not, you can follow the
> following gentoo docs to the extent they might be applicble to
> Mandriva:
> 
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_ACPI_basic_configuration
> 
> I wound up with: 
> 
> /etc/apcid/events/lid:
> 
> event=button[ /]lid.*
> action=/etc/acpi/lid.sh
> 
> /etc/acpi/lid.sh:
> 
> STATEFILE=/proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state
> 
> STATE=`awk '{print $2}' $STATEFILE`
> 
> case "$STATE" in
>     "closed")
>         logger -i -t acpi-lid "Lid closed, sutting light off"
>         radeontool light off
>         ;;
>     *)
>         logger -i -t acpi-lid "Lid open, turning lit on"
>         radeontool light on
>         ;;
> esac
> 
> Hope this is helpful.
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 10:44 +0000, jesus_arocho@comcast.net wrote:
> > I guess I can join a Bucks group, not having a Montgomery group close by.  I 
> live in Franconia and Borders, in the 309 mall area sounds good; plus I can 
> always convince my son to take a ride to a bookstore.:)
> > 
> > Incidentally, does anyone know how to get a Dell Inspiron 6000 to recover when 
> the lid is closed and reopened?  I installed Mandriva 2006 on a new unit about 
> two weeks ago.
> > 
> > 
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> > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 10:44 +0000, jesus_arocho@comcast.net wrote:
> > > Why don't we take a brief location survey and see where people are
> > > concentrated.
> > > ~Ed
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Craig Brennan wrote: 
> > > > Any of those would work for me, and Borders and Barnes & Noble have decent
> > > > techie book sections (esp. Borders).
> > > > 
> > > > --- Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > >   
> > > > > Aaron Mulder wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > >     
> > > > > > T
> > > > > > The Borders in Montgomeryville is nice -- the only problem being that
> > > > > > it's not actually in Bucks County, though I guess we don't need to
> > > > > > hold that against them.  :)
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I wonder if we should try to alternate between east and west, and do
> > > > > > Montgomeryville and Oxford Valley, or something.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >  
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >       
> > > > > I don't know about Borders, but Barnes & Noble in both Montgomeryville 
> > > > > and Oxford Valley have semi-private "events" areas that are available to
> > > > > 
> > > > > groups like this at not cost.  (The idea is to get a bunch of people in 
> > > > > the store who might buy expensive computer books or other stuff.)  The 
> > > > > person to contact is the "Community Relations Manager" at each store.  I
> > > > > 
> > > > > can get names and numbers if you wish.  Willow Grove, which is closer to
> > > > > 
> > > > > Warminster-Warrington-Doylestown is also available.
> > > > > 
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