From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 30 20:53:55 2003 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E51637B401 for <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:53:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remt25.cluster1.charter.net (remt25.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDCAD43F85 for <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:53:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from charlesalexander1@charter.net) Received: from [66.169.25.25] (HELO charter.net) by remt25.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0.6) with ESMTP id 108036212 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 23:53:54 -0400 Message-ID: <3F2892CA.5090202@charter.net> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 23:53:46 -0400 From: Charles <charlesalexander1@charter.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030708 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Dell Inspiron 8200 Lid Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD <freebsd-mobile.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile>, <mailto:freebsd-mobile-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-mobile-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile>, <mailto:freebsd-mobile-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 03:53:55 -0000 I cannot get my lid to work the way I want it, first it would always suspend with the screen still on but I installed a patch mentioned here http://sandcat.nl/~stijn/freebsd/dell.php and it has allowed me to use acpi to set the lid state with /sbin/sysctl -w hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=NONE . Now when I close the lid, it doesn't suspend but I can see through the cracks that the screen is still on. How can I set it to where the screen will turn off when I close the lid? Thanks.