On Sunday 19 Mar 2017 21:49:00 Massimo Maiurana wrote:
> Massimo Maiurana ha scritto il 19/03/2017 alle 14:29:
> > Mick ha scritto il 19/03/2017 alle 13:23:
> >> On Sunday 19 Mar 2017 09:44:23 Massimo Maiurana wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>> I finally bought a brand new laptop :)
> >>>
> >>> Of course I installed E, building from source as I've always did but I
> >>> have two problems to solve.
> >>>
> >>> The first is regarding acpi events: closing lid the laptop should
> >>> suspend, and indeed it is what happens under gnome (there also lid open
> >>> resumes it) but does not happen under E. Acpid is not installed so
> >>> probably that's what I need, but I wonder why it works in gnome.
> >>
> >> I don't run gnome, but from a more generic perspective you will need to
> >> install acpid and make sure it is running as a service when you boot up.
> >> Closing the lid then generates an event captured by acpid which by
> >> default
> >> will suspend to ram. Check what you have at Settings > Settings Panel >
> >> Input>>
> >>> ACPI Bindings > Lid Closed. I have set mine to 'Suspend Intelligently'
> >>> and
> >>
> >> it works as advertised.
> >
> > Hmh, well, i'm not sure acpid is required for this to work. I think
> > acpid is for managing acpi events, not for exposing them, or lid close
> > wouldn't work even under other environments. I'll try installing it and
> > see if it solves the problem.
>
> Well, I installed acpid, now lid events are recognized but an old issue
> is back: dpms.
> Before installing acpid screen blanking did work as expected, after
> reaching timeout the screen was really blanked out, with acpid installed
> the backlight is never turned off so it is more an obscuring than a
> blanking. Indeed "xset q" says that dmps is off :/
I've also come across this a couple of times. I had to Disable Screen
Blanking, log off/on then re-enable it. Then xset reported 'DPMS is Enabled'.
--
Regards,
Mick
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