Some things that used to work in FC3 but don't in FC4: ACPI

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> The ACPI scripts for my Thinkpad don't work as they used to.  For example, 
> the script I use to turn off the backlight touches or removes a file to 
> indicate whether the backlight is on or off.  In FC4, the script is 
> apparently not allowed to touch the file in either /etc/acpi/actions (where 
> it used to) or even in /var/tmp (where I changed it to).
>
> Also, radeontool appears to fail to detect the Radeon in lspci when run form 
> the script, but it works fine when run from the command line as root.
> The error is different from the one that usually occurs when running 
> radeontool as non-root, which is "can't open /dev/mem Are you root?"
> This error is "Radeon hardware not found in lspci output."
>
> This issue also affects my suspend script, which is not permitted to write to 
> /proc/acpi/sleep.
>
> Any ideas what's going on here?

To follow myself up:

As I kind of suspected, this is an SELinux issue--turn off enforcing mode 
and everything works as expected.  So how can I give these scripts access 
to the files they need to touch/write to?

Thanks.


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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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