[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