On 7/30/05, Ralph Loizzo ralphloizzo@sbcglobal.net 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...
As the following post indicated, you need to learn more about udev and how to setup devices using udev.
However, as a workaround, your can put the commands you have to issue manually in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and they will be issued each time you boot. Be aware:
1. You don't need sudo for commands in rc.local. 2. you need to code the absolute pathname to each command.
Try it, and you can forget about the problem until you learn a lot more about udev.