Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/6/25 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I, too, am interested in the answer, if there is one. I am thinking of using the Asus eee (read "no hard drive") for processing in a robot. It seems to me that if the robot is moving there is less likely to be a problem if the l

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/25 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In any case, the issue is not whether or not to leave it running while > I'm walking across the library. The issue is doing it with the lid up > or down. What can I do to instruct the computer not to suspend in > response to ACPI events for X seconds? >

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/25 Jochen Antesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The disk will spin down very quickly. If it took five seconds I'd be > surprised. Also carrying around a laptop while it is running won't be a > problem at all. The drives can take it. Just don't drop it or bang it onto > the table. I once saw a l

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-25 Thread Jochen Antesberger
Am Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:10:08 +0300 schrieb Dotan Cohen: > 2008/6/24 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I do not know the solution to your problem. >> >> But first of all is it advisable to move a computer while it is running? You >> can induce a lot of vibration into the electrical/mech

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-25 Thread elijah r.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I, too, am interested in the answer, if there is one. I am thinking of > using the Asus eee (read "no hard drive") for processing in a robot. It Hello, If you are running Debian on your EeePC and are using the eeepc-acpi

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/25 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I, too, am interested in the answer, if there is one. I am thinking of > using the Asus eee (read "no hard drive") for processing in a robot. It > seems to me that if the robot is moving there is less likely to be a problem > if the lid is shut, than

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: My Dell Inspiron laptop running KDE suspends to RAM automatically when I close the lid. Usually, this is the behaviour that I want. However, sometimes I need to walk from place to place with the machine and I'd like to close the lid without sus

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/24 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I do not know the solution to your problem. > > But first of all is it advisable to move a computer while it is running? You > can induce a lot of vibration into the electrical/mechanical components > (hard drive failure comes to my mind) while

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-24 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Dotan Cohen wrote: > My Dell Inspiron laptop running KDE suspends to RAM automatically when > I close the lid. Usually, this is the behaviour that I want. However, > sometimes I need to walk from place to place with the machine and I'd > like to close the lid without suspending. Is there a script

Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
My Dell Inspiron laptop running KDE suspends to RAM automatically when I close the lid. Usually, this is the behaviour that I want. However, sometimes I need to walk from place to place with the machine and I'd like to close the lid without suspending. Is there a script that I can run to tell the c