Oliver Johns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [some material deleted below]
> Some notebooks seem to suspend OK from a virtual terminal, but not from > X-windows. I had that problem and found a solution. The setup here is a > Gateway Solo3350 with a Phoenix NoteBIOS 4.0 release 6.0 (serial 25.04). > This trick may apply also to other notebooks using that same BIOS. Well, I tried it on my Gateway Solo 9300 and it appears to work. My BIOS is the same 4.0 and release 6.0, but I don't see a serial number. At boot time it also says system software version 16.53. I don't know if that is relevant or not. I have only tried suspending X twice so far, but so far so good. > ------------------------------------------------------------- > #!/bin/sh > > XVT=7 > if [ -x fgconsole -a -x chvt ]; then > [ $(fgconsole) -eq $XVT ] && chvt $XVT > fi I am still learning bash scripting, and the above is not clear to me. To me, it looks like line three is saying "if the current vt is 7 then switch to vt 7." This cannot be correct, so what does it really mean? Also, are there any problems with running fgconsole and chvt suid root? Does another group have whatever priviledges are necessary to do this (or could one be created)? Could the user and the programs belong to this other group instead and would this work? My laptop is actually never on-line directly (it is only ever behind an IP masquerading desktop), so maybe these programs running suid root is not so bad? Thanks for posting this. It will be nice not to switch to VT 1--6 prior to closing the lid. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
