On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 11:09 -0500, Ralph Loizzo wrote:
Okay. I've been able to set my laptop's screen brighter by working with the program spicctrl and the sonypi device.
But everytime I boot, I login under my username then have to do the following every time... First I go into the bash terminal, then su because I can't do this under my login name
mknod /dev/sonypi c 10 250 #because sonypi is not listed in /dev - it disappears everytime I shut down
then I type
chmod o+w sonypi #because I want to be able under my login name, not root, to set the brightness
then i exit su
and type spicctrl --setbrightness=150
and it works...
My questions are:
Why do I have to recreate the device every time? Shouldn't it be there every time?
Your comments would be greatly appreciated.
Ralph-
Take a look at the files in /etc/makedev.d
I think you can do something like create a file in /etc/makedev.d called sonypi, with the following contents.
c $CONSOLE 10 250 1 1 sonypi
Sean