[Pidgin] #4765: Patch: Pidgin-Blinklight + ASUS Laptops

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#4765: Patch: Pidgin-Blinklight + ASUS Laptops
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 Reporter:  kip                                                 |       Type:  patch
   Status:  new                                                 |   Priority:  minor
Component:  plugins                                             |    Version:  2.3.1
 Keywords:  blinklight,thinklight,asus,a7j,notebook,laptop,led  |    Pending:  0    
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 I had originally submitted this patch to Joachim Breitner (mail at joachim-
 breitner.de) last month, but never got a response back. He is the official
 maintainer for the Pidgin-Blinklight plugin (formerly known as Pidgin-
 Thinklight). I think he may be too tied up with his studies to reply right
 now, so I hope passing this on directly to the Pidgin maintainers won't be
 breaking the rules.

 My ASUS A7J laptop led light doesn't blink when I get a message, but I
 think I've fixed that. I've attached a patch to be applied against pidgin-
 blinklight_0.9 source Debian/Ubuntu package. My driver is provided by the
 asus-laptop module (which replaces deprecated asus-acpi) and uses sysfs
 (/sys) instead of /proc. So this should fix the problem for everyone with
 an ASUS laptop. Right now the LED is r/w for root and read only for
 everyone else (asus-laptop module creates these and their respective
 permissions). But that's not the Blinklight plugin's problem and I will
 try to take care of this over with the asus-laptop project people.

 In response to the TipsForPatchWriters wiki, my full name is Kip Warner
 and my email address is kip AT thevertigo.com.

 Kip

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