Collins Richey wrote:
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:
- You don't need sudo for commands in rc.local.
- 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.
Well I went ahead and changed rc.local instead of rc.sysinit (which i had tried before) and it worked!
I will investigate udev at a later time, but at least now I can see my screen!
Thanks to you Collins and also to Shawn