I can try to do this, but it will have to wait, I've got too much work now. Don't you think the userspace solution deserves a try?
Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > >>http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4767: >> >>Bugzilla Bug 4767 RFE: console_blank_hook that can call userspace >>program >>Submitter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eugene Pavlovsky) >> >>I think it'd be very good to have a console_blank_hook handler that >>would call a >>userspace program/script/generate hotplug event whatever. Currently, >>the console >>can only be blanked using APM, so no options exist for people using >>ACPI. I've >>got a Radeon graphics chip on my laptop, and the LCD backlight can be >>controlled >>(on/off) using radeontool. If there was a userspace callback >>interface >>to >>console blanking, I would just make a callback script that calls >>"radeontool >>light off" on blank and "radeontool light on" on unblank - really >>easy. I think >>this userspace console_blank_hook handler is very simple to put into >>kernel, but >>I'm not a kernel developer myself, so wouldn't risk sending any >>patches (that >>call system("some_script")), because I probably won't make things as >>they should >>be in the kernel. > > > Radeonfb should blank console automatically, without userspace > helper. Send a patch to do that ;-). > > Pavel > -- The human knowledge belongs to the world - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
