Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 10:04:14 +0400 From: "Victor M. Blood" <root@masm.elcom.ru> To: Spil Oss <spil.oss@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with lid on Dell D400 Message-ID: <731432799.20080406100414@masm.elcom.ru> In-Reply-To: <5fbf03c20804040844q22875ac8nbbc3fae121d3eac8@mail.gmail.com> References: <5fbf03c20804040812t5fdf8065ubf46d6420358595@mail.gmail.com> <5fbf03c20804040844q22875ac8nbbc3fae121d3eac8@mail.gmail.com>
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On 04.04.2008, Spil Oss wrote: > On a Dell D400 notebook (Pentium-M 1.4GHz, Intel 855GM, ICH4M) running > FreeBSD 7.0 #0 > Closing the lid switches off the display, opening the lid does not > switch the display back on. Very annoying. The machine is fully > functional otherwise (accessed via ssh). > Noticed this first on a vanilla FreeBSD-7.0 #0 install, the optimized > kernel seems to behave the same. > In sysctl I noticed after closing and opening the lid > hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: NONE > but I have not checked the status of this sysctl before I closed the lid. > dmesg output is not of boot -v, but of regular boot > I wouldn't care if the lid doesn't have acpi features (e.g. suspend on > lid close), but I'd like the screen to switch off for additional > battery-life. > Hope someone can help me! on Dell 1300B I use module acpi_video add to loader.conf acpi_video_load="yes" and configure devd.conf to run script on lid change status: exist in it's examples. notify 10 { match "system" "ACPI"; match "subsystem" "Lid"; action "/sbin/lidctl $notify"; }; # cat /sbin/lidctl #!/bin/sh hive=hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active sysctl=/sbin/sysctl case "$1" in "1" | "0x01") ${sysctl} ${hive}=1 >/dev/null ;; "0" | "0x00") ${sysctl} ${hive}=0 >/dev/null ;; esac -- With all regards, Victor M. Blood. mailto: freebsd@masm.elcom.ru FTN: 2:5024/1.95@Fidonet.org, ICQ#3567656
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