[Debian-eeepc-devel] Beta 1 of eeepc-acpi-scripts 1.1.0 available for testing

Darren Salt linux at youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk
Fri Apr 3 23:27:30 UTC 2009


I demand that Luca Niccoli may or may not have written...

> 2009/4/3 Darren Salt <linux at youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>:
>> Works fine here, but it does rely on a running session manager, or at
>> least the session having been registered.

> It tries to fall back to the owner of startx if the session is not
> registered...

With an active session, this is indeed a "bug" of sorts (but see bug 522468).
However, at an X login prompt, it's useful: how else would notifications work
at that time?

> If you know a better way to do this, it would be great if you could share
> it, for this has been a problem for many packages (acpi-support and fglrx
> come to my mind)...

Our current solution is in /usr/share/eeepc-acpi-scripts/functions.sh. Feel
free to (try to) improve it... :-)

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