Collins Richey wrote: >On 7/30/05, Ralph Loizzo <ralphloizzo at 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. > > > 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