[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#638750: Bug#638750: eeepc-acpi-scripts does not show OSD

[Ben Armstrong]

On 21/08/11 12:20 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
> it seems, OSD is not running any more on my EEEPC 1005 HGO. You should also
> know, that I must still use the acpi_osi="Linux" option at boot, otherwise
> fancontrol will not work (just to tell you, that eeepc-wmi can still not be
> used here, as those things might interfere with eeepc-acpi-scripts)

But eeepc-wmi is indicated as the preferred solution upstream, so if
your hardware is still not supported, I am sure upstream will appreciate
a suitably detailed report (though this bug# is not the place for
further discussion about that).

> Apart from this, OSD is no more working (for examnple, FN+Space or switching
> the mouse-off-button). On the other hand, the volume bar is shown, when I
> tune volume with the hotkeys.

That's not eeepc-acpi-scripts doing the volume bar. That might be
gnome-settings-daemon if you run that. I think notify-osd (an
alternative to notification-daemon) also provides volume bar indicator
support.

> And of course, OSD is set to ='yey' in /etc/default/eeepc-acpi-scripts.

I assume you meant "yes".

> I also tried with the older aosd-cat (with the simple green letters), but
> aosd-cat did not work, too. So I reinstalled libnotify again.

As said in NEWS.Debian.gz from Nov 12, 2010, this is no longer supported
and you should use libnotify-bin and notification-daemon if you want
this functionality. Do you have notification-daemon running (or a
similar facility?)

> As you told in the changelog, acpi-support was reinstalled by me (with older
> versions of eeepc-acpi-scripts it should be uninstalled).
> 
> Anything I missed? Just let me know. Thanks for your help.

There are handlers for fn-touchpad and fn-spacebar in eeepc-acpi-scripts
(configurable via /etc/default/eeepc-acpi-scripts) which should invoke
notify-send, if present, to send notifications to the running
notification daemon. We need to know if these are not triggered at all
or are triggered but simply fail to send notifications, or if the
notifications are being sent, but nothing is listening. Do the actions
associated with these keys actually fire?

Ben