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To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams)
Cc: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@oslo.online.no>,
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Subject: Re: Laptop goes to standby when the lid is closed 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:48:29 MST."
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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:52:32 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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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

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