[SOLVED] acpi hotkeys for disable mouse

keeperofdakeys · 12-26-2009, 07:52 AM

hello
I recently got an Asus EEEpc 1005ha and am in the process of outfitting it with slackware 13.0. I have been trying to setup the Fn + F1-12 hotkeys, but one is not working when it should. I successfully setup the volume hotkeys, so I know that the process I am using should work. The hotkey is to disable the mouse. I stumbled upon acpi_listener, so I was able to find the right code for the hotkey and I have a shell script that does disable the mouse when run. The problem is that the event script doesn't seem to activate the action script.

These are the event and action script that should work:
/etc/acpi/events/disable_mouse:

Code:

event=hotkey ATKD 00000037
action=/etc/acpi/actions/disable_mouse.sh

/etc/acpi/actions/disable_mouse.sh

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# Toggle tochpad disabled

GET_STATE="`synclient -l | grep Guest`"
OFF_STATE="    GuestMouseOff           = 1"
ON_STATE="    GuestMouseOff           = 0"

if [ "$GET_STATE" = "$ON_STATE" ]
then
synclient guestmouseoff=1
else
synclient guestmouseoff=0
fi

When run by itself, the script is succesful in stopping the mouse. The output of acpi_listen for the button is: hotkey ATKD 00000037.

The scripts that do work are:
/etc/acpi/events/volume_up:

Code:

event=hotkey ATKD 00000015
action=/etc/acpi/actions/volume_up.sh

/etc/acpi/actions/volume_up.sh:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
amixer -q set Master 5%+

From the scripts I can't see what I have done wrong, as the non-working script seems identical to the working script.
Thanks in advance.

DrLove73 · 01-26-2010, 03:29 AM

Maybe some other action caches it first because it has priority.

eternauta2001 · 01-26-2010, 03:47 PM

Hi!

Try adding the following at the beginning of your script:

Code:

logger "ACPI: /etc/acpi/actions/disable_mouse.sh

Press the hotkey and then check the log file /var/log/messages to see if they really execute the script.

I have the following script and it works:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
# Toggle touchpad enable/disabled

STATE="$(synclient -l 2>/dev/null | sed -e '/TouchpadOff/! d; s/[^0-9]\+//g')"
synclient TouchpadOff=$((1-STATE)) 2>/dev/null

keeperofdakeys · 01-26-2010, 07:55 PM

I actually managed to fix this a while ago and forgot about this thread

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In the end I had to restart acpid when I started X, and give it no password sudo permission in sudoers. This is probably due to the fact that I start in text mode, so the X server isn't started before acpid, and synclient depends on shmconfig, which is set by hal for X.

DrLove73 · 01-27-2010, 10:23 AM

Excellent. Can you then please mark this thread as SOLVED. Use instruction in my signature.