Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 00:22:05 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: acpi@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to suspend/wake-up a FreeBSD machine? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1080105000722.21758B-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20080104201142.7bc73059@meijome.net>
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 19:13:20 +1100 (EST) > Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote: [..] > > 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. > > ah yes :) > > > > > 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. > > > > 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 > > > > which makes sense and was expected .. except that since doing that, > > closing the lid while awake still just blanks screen, but opening lid > > now wakes the laptop from sleep! No big deal, just slightly odd .. > > hmm mine reads : > > hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: NONE > > dev.acpi_lid.0.wake: 1 Sorry Beto, I must have been dreaming :) I have that too, but did try 'sysctl dev.acpi_lid.0.wake=0'. With that, no keys at all but only pressing the power button (not for too long!) will wake it up (phew). Anyway, after a reboot - having noticed that since my verbose boot the other day, each ACPI suspend/resume is VERY chatty in messages - it's still working the same. So eat this message .. > FreeBSD ayiin.octantis.com.au 7.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE > #1: Fri Jan 4 09:44:17 EST 2008 > root@ayiin.octantis.com.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Happy new job .. cheers, Ian
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