On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
> >
> > On 14-Jan-2003 Vincent Poy wrote:
> > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Scott Long wrote:
> > >
> > >> Vincent Poy wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Greetings:
> > >> >
> > >> > Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook? I'm
> > >> > trying to figure out if there is a way to prevent the notebook from
> > >> > suspending when the lid is closed. Thanks.
> > >>
> > >> I have that notebook, and I have the same problem. Setting the hw.acpi
> > >> sysctls that control the sleep states and actions doesn't seem to make a
> > >> difference. Disabling acpi might make it work (haven't tried), but then
> > >> it probably won't route interrupts from the cardbus slots anymore.
> > >>
> > >> Scott
> > >
> > > Hmmm, I don't have anything in my cardbus slots since everything
> > > is on the Mini-PCI but what does your sysctl hw.acpi.lid_switch_state show
> > > for the current setting?
> > >
> > > vince@bigbang [2:50am][~] >> sysctl hw.acpi.lid_switch_state
> > > hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: NONE
> > >
> > > This is after I did /sbin/sysctl -w hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=NONE
> > > in /etc/rc.local as that works fine on my IBM ThinkPad 770Z.
> >
> > Try 'S0' instead of 'NONE' and see if that works.
>
> That doesn't work for me. After switching from S1 to S0 and
> closing the lid, the machine still suspends. Plus, it never
> wakes up. It needs a power on, and then the subsequent fsck's
> when FreeBSD boots again.
Just curious but does the LCD stay on when the machine suspends
since on mines, the last thing displayed will remain there until I hold
the power button down to manually shut the machine off and then the power
on where it does the fsck's and FreeBSD boots again.
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