On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 01:42:28PM +0600, broke wrote: > I am trying to figure out what kind of acpi event is triggered on lid > close and looking to be able to manually trigger it. When I use X's > display management tools like 'xset dpms force off' while playing > audio, it seems to pause as the display turns off. But on lid close > that doesn't happen. I want to be able to trigger that lid close > event manually if possible. I've read acpi(4) and other manpages > hoping to figure something out, but because I'm new to interacting > with the BSD kernel, I don't really know how to do this. I know > a bit of C programming if that requires it. I would like to know > what acpi event is trigged on lid close. Thank you! >
It depends on the value set for machdep.lidaction on /etc/sysctl.conf. >From /etc/examples/sysctl.conf: machdep.lidaction=0 # laptop lid closing action: 0=none, 1=suspend, 2=hibernate Suspend and hibernate are equivalent to issuing zzz and ZZZ on the command line, respectively (see apm(8)), assuming you are running apmd. What happens at a lower level, ACPI-wise, is beyond me. --
