From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 14 12:19:37 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 EC04137B401; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:19:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [216.235.52.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B42143ED8; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:19:35 -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 h0EKIwI85603; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:18:58 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:18:58 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Daniel Eischen Cc: John Baldwin , , , Scott Long Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030114101755.I3206-100000@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 Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote: > 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. > > That doesn't work for me. After switching from S1 to S0 and > closing the lid, the machine still suspends. Plus, it never > wakes up. It needs a power on, and then the subsequent fsck's > when FreeBSD boots again. Just curious but does the LCD stay on when the machine suspends since on mines, the last thing displayed will remain there until I hold the power button down to manually shut the machine off and then the power on where it does the fsck's and FreeBSD boots again. 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