[ltp] Anyone got ibm-acpi scripts working on SuSE?

[Bill Sheppard]

Wolfgang Karall wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 18:03 -0700, Bill Sheppard wrote:
>   
>> event=.*
>> action=/usr/sbin/acpid_proxy %e
>>
>> so if I add other scripts in there it's unclear whether this wildcard
>> would handle all events before my script gets checked.
>>     
>
> According to the acpid manual page:
> "This  feature  allows multiple rules to be defined for the same event
> (though no ordering is guaranteed), as well as one rule to be defined
> for multiple events."
>
> So, if you put an additional
>
> event=ibm/
> action=/where/ever/you/put/the/script.sh "%e"
>
> you should be able to use the SuSE setup and your script side by side.
> I don't have a catch-all event line in my acpid configuration, but I
> have multiple action lines for the same event, and that works fine. So
> in case the additional event is not recognized, just add your action
> line below the acpid_proxy call and search for specific ibm-acpi events
> in the script.
>   
Since the catchall doesn't prevent additional events from being run, I
just went ahead and defined events for the hotkeys, this worked great. 
Thanks!

Bill
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