On 4/21/09, Ben Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:28:55 +0200 > Santi Béjar <[email protected]> wrote: >> It has been discussed in the past. The main issue is that the Eee uses >> the keyboard to cool the machine, so the only sane/safe thing to do is >> to suspend. >> >> You can always, at your own risk, modify the action in >> /etc/acpi/actions/lid.sh. > > I think the risks may be somewhat overstated, so we need to be clearer > on this point. Please supply evidence that this is harmful. My > experience with the model 4G is that it is safe to leave the lid closed > along as you apply some common sense. > > My Eee is now nearly a year and a half old. In that time, I have more > than once accidentally left the lid closed with the system running > *and* left it in that state in my not-well-ventilated bag. Upon > discovering this hours later, the temperature was reported to be around > 68C. There is no evidence that the system sustained any damage from > these events. Granted, this is only one data point, so you can't draw > any general conclusions from it. However, it suggests that if you > exercise some prudence (i.e. don't leave it running with the lid > closed and run something CPU-intensive and/or block the vent) there > should be no problem running it with the lid closed, even for extended > periods of time. >
+1. I've done the same thing, and the machine was uncomfortably hot to the touch, but undamaged. I agree that it gets hot if you just close it and walk away, but that's something you have to learn. I learnt this quickly because it's _uncomfortable_ when it gets hot, even just typing on a desk. If you have to deliberately choose to disable "suspend on lid close", I don't see the problem. It's really not a "let me kill my hardware" setting. It's "don't kill my user experience because I might sometimes forget and slightly reduce the lifetime of my hardware". I can see arguments for preserving the default. If someone installs debian to replace Xandros, it's nice to have the same default behaviour, especially when there are trade-offs like this. But I'm unhappy with suspending it automatically because of the way I use it. I drag it around with me at home, and I obviously close the lid while carrying it. Having to press the power button, wait a few seconds for resume, and possibly recover broken network connections detracts significantly from the experience. Am I that unusual? At least for the original EEE, the power consumption in suspend is unfortunately high. My solution is to hibernate if I'm going to throw it in a bag, so I'm free to forget about it for the day. _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
