On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 04 January 2008 03:13:20 am Ian Smith wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Norberto Meijome wrote: > > > On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:51:41 +0100 > > > Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > That depends largely on the hardware - on e.g. ThinkPads you need to > > > > press the 'Fn' button to wake up the laptop after sleep. > > > > > > hmm i think it's not so much the Fn key, u need to do anything that > > > triggers an ACPI event in the BIOS - like opening the lid , or > > > pressing Fn. I *think* 'thinkVantage' blue btn should work too. > > > > On my T23 I have suspend/wake on lid switch off (in BIOS), preferring to > > have to use the Fn key to wake. No other keys do that on mine including > > the ThinkPad key, so then called. > > > > While consulting 'sysctl hw.acpi' about that I see: > > hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: NONE > > which I assume reflects my don't-do-that BIOS setting. > > No, that's the FreeBSD default.
Um, der .. I see that and other sysctls are in acpi(4) now, but weren't in my (oldish) 5.5-STABLE nor 6.1-RELEASE. Time for upgrades for sure! > > And confirming: > > # sysctl hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=1 # (or =0) > > hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: NONE > > sysctl: hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: Invalid argument > > This is because this sysctl is not an on/off, but it takes an Sx state to > suspend to when you close the lid. So if you set this to S1 it will try to > enter S1 when you close the lid, etc. For example: > > sysctl hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=S3 > > Would make it enter S3 when you closed the lid. Thanks John. S3 works on mine, but S1 doesn't. Didn't try S5 :) but NONE is really what I want there anyway. cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
