Unfortunately, I own a Dell laptop.  <sigh>

Any other ideas?  *No one* seems to want this feature, which I can't
figure out...


On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 11:40:14PM -0400, Krishna Tateneni babbled thus:
> From: Krishna Tateneni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: PinkFreud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: laptops with linux...
> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 23:40:14 -0400
> X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4]
> 
> http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/tpctlhome.htm
> 
> I found this page which describes "tpctl", a program for IBM
> Thinkpads, which allows among other things, the ability to
> disable suspend when the laptop cover is closed.
> 
> Alas, this seems to be limited to Thinkpads only.
> 
> 
> On Monday 01 July 2002 11:15 pm, PinkFreud wrote:
> > I don't suppose anyone here has managed to convince linux to not
> > suspend the laptop when the lid is closed, have you?  I used an
> > (unmaintained) patch with 2.2 - I'm trying to find a better
> > solution for 2.4, though.
> >
> > As far as I can tell, apmd looks for various ioctls which it can
> > call to ignore suspend, etc.  However, the kernel doesn't
> > actually seem to *support* these ioctls...
> 

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