On 14-Jan-2003 Vincent Poy wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Scott Long wrote: > >> Vincent Poy wrote: >> >> > Greetings: >> > >> > Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook? I'm >> > trying to figure out if there is a way to prevent the notebook from >> > suspending when the lid is closed. Thanks. >> >> I have that notebook, and I have the same problem. Setting the hw.acpi >> sysctls that control the sleep states and actions doesn't seem to make a >> difference. Disabling acpi might make it work (haven't tried), but then >> it probably won't route interrupts from the cardbus slots anymore. >> >> Scott > > Hmmm, I don't have anything in my cardbus slots since everything > is on the Mini-PCI but what does your sysctl hw.acpi.lid_switch_state show > for the current setting? > > vince@bigbang [2:50am][~] >> sysctl hw.acpi.lid_switch_state > hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: NONE > > This is after I did /sbin/sysctl -w hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=NONE > in /etc/rc.local as that works fine on my IBM ThinkPad 770Z.
Try 'S0' instead of 'NONE' and see if that works. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
