On Tue, 24 Dec 2013, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: > Patrick Bartek, 21.12.2013: > > Installed Wheezy-LXDE 32-bit off LXDE flavor ISO via thumb drive to > > replace Eeebuntu 3.0 that I installed on it 3 years ago or so. > > Chose Base, Desktop GUI and Laptop tasks. Nothing else. All went > > well and as far as I can tell everything works, except Suspend > > (sleep, not hibernate) when the lid is closed. Don't want > > hibernate anyway. Instead of sleeping, the display is shutdown, but > > the computer itself is still fully powered and running. (The > > "sleep" key combo FnF1 works however.) > > > > I installed the eeepc-apci-scripts from the repo thinking that might > > solve the problem. It didn't, but fortunately those scripts are > > compatible with the others, so no conflicts. > > > > I finally traced the "problem" to lid.sh from the original acpi > > scripts. Full script is below. Toward the top, this if-then is not > > being triggered. Don't know why. > > > > if [ x$LID_SLEEP = xtrue]; then > > pm-suspend > > > > Any answers come to mind? > > I had a look at the /etc/acpi/lid.sh script below, which appears to > be the same as what I have. Based on line 7 of that script, I checked > /etc/default/acpi-support, where I saw > ------------ > # Uncomment this to enable ACPI sleep when the lid screen is closed. > #LID_SLEEP=true > ------------ > Did you try uncommenting that?
I did look at that file several times in my searches, and I missed the setting everytime. Can't see the forest for the trees, I guess. ;-) Thanks for finding it. The netbook has already been returned to the owner, but I'll be over there after New Year's, so I'll uncomment the setting, reset the lid event to the default, and test it. Thanks, again. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131224154827.5b9b5...@debian7.boseck208.net
