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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:20:25 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, mobile@freebsd.org, Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20030114142025.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030114004958.F3206-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>

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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.

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