[Bug 899008] Re: Asus touchpad disabling doesn't work. Found the error in getXconsole.

[Steve Langasek]

why do you have an X server running as non-root?

** Changed in: acpi-support (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: acpi-support (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Asus touchpad disabling doesn't work. Found the error in getXconsole.

Status in “acpi-support” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  After following the trace of my /etc/acpi/asus-touchpad.sh, I found
  that the error was in the getXconsole function of /usr/share/acpi-
  support/power-funcs.

  When asus-touchpad.sh is runned, it is runned as root
  (understandably), but that makes this line fail:

  displaynum=`ps t tty$console | sed -n -re 's,.*/X .*:([0-9]+).*,\1,p'`

  since that only gets root's processes.

  I changed it to:

  displaynum=`ps at tty$console | sed -n -re 's,.*/X
  .*:([0-9]+).*,\1,p'`

  and now it works like a charm.

  Just thaught I should mention it, so that the authors can fix it, but
  also so that other users with the same problem can fix it themself.

  Extra information:
  Description:	Ubuntu 11.10
  Release:	11.10

  acpi-support:
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