[ltp] acpid battery events wake screen

Daniel Maier linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:18:26 +0100


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On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 01:39:54PM +0000, Richard Neill wrote:
>=20
>=20
> shorty wrote:
> >Hi folks,
> >	For some reason it seems that whenever my thinkpad recieves a battery
> >event through acpid it wakes the screen up. This is annoying and I am
> >concerned this is shortening the life of my backlight. I had kde
> >installed at one time and this never happened. At the moment I am using
> >xfce4 running debian. Whenever I plug or unplug, this also wakes the
> >screen, although I cant remember if this used to happen or not. The
> >screen blanks without problem with xscreensaver and also with the F3
> >button. Ideas?
Strace/debug acpid to see what it does.
> Could it be xscreensaver which is getting deactivated?
The backlight turnoff is controlled by X and it should only turn on
when using mouse or keyboard or any other X event. Even then
Thinkpad and volume buttons keep it blank.
>=20
> Also, could it be somethng like the taskbar battery monitor which is a=20
> client of acpid?
Also not possible in my opinion.

nusse.

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