[ltp] acpid battery events wake screen
Richard Neill
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:39:54 +0000
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?
Is it definitely acpid doing this?
See: tail -f /var/log/acpid
and
/etc/acpi/events
/etc/acpi/actions
Could it be xscreensaver which is getting deactivated?
Also, could it be somethng like the taskbar battery monitor which is a
client of acpid?
Richard