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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:42:06 -1000 (HST)
From:      Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, <mobile@FreeBSD.org>, Scott Long <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook
Message-ID:  <20030114093733.R3206-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030114142025.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, John Baldwin wrote:

> 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.

	With the setting not set at all by leaving it at defaults, while
the BIOS does have close lid as Active, I noticed that even with the lid
closed or with NONE set, the LCD is still on but it's just the machine
already suspended since it's like the screen's image is frozen when you
try anything.

root@bigbang [11:37am][/home/vince] >> sysctl hw.acpi.lid_switch_state
hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: S1

	But let me see what S0 does.

root@bigbang [11:37am][/home/vince] >> sysctl -w
hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=S0
hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: S1 -> S0
root@bigbang [11:40am][/home/vince] >> sysctl hw.acpi.lid_switch_state
hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: S0

	When I closed the lid, I can still see through the slit the LCD is
still on but it's like the entire machine froze or something since it
doesn't resume from suspend but it still has the last image of the daemon
screensaver but doesn't change.


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