Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:52:32 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@oslo.online.no>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop goes to standby when the lid is closed Message-ID: <20020311195232.C47105D0B@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:48:29 MST." <15501.2573.37137.498448@caddis.yogotech.com>
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> From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:48:29 -0700 > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > > I have a laptop (IBM ThinkPad 380ED) that goes to standby when the lid is closed. Bear with me, and I'll explain. > > > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.5-stable, have apm compiled in the kernel, but I am NOT running apmd. Still, when the lid closes, it goes to standby. > > > > However, when I was running 4.3-stable (and 4.4-release) it just turned off the screen when I closed the lid. > > > > How can I get this behavior back? > > I haven't changed anything in the BIOS settings, or anywhere else. > > This is a BIOS setting, and is normally controlled by the ThinkPad > windows software. On most ThinkPads, it is best to use ps2 (DOS program) to configure BIOS. The Windows tool puts the changes in the Windows registry, but does not actually update CMOS memory for may items and the registry is of no use when booting FreeBSD. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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