From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 14 2:52:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 387A937B401; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 02:52:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B7143F18; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 02:52:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h0EAqHS76648; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 00:52:18 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 00:52:17 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Scott Long Cc: mobile@freebsd.org, Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook In-Reply-To: <3E235DD9.6080904@btc.adaptec.com> Message-ID: <20030114004958.F3206-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message