On 11/08/10 20:01, mark hellewell wrote: > Hello, > > I installed 4.8 on this 'netbook' as soon as my CD set arrived -- thought > I'd give it a go what with the new ACPI work that's been done -- and, aside > from an AR5424-based ath wireless adapter that doesn't want to connect to > any network available to me, everything else seems to be working well. I'll > tinker with my ath problems some more before resorting to list help, > however... > > My question now is: is there something special I have to do, or something > obvious I have (clearly) missed, to permit the system to act on acpi related > kqueue events? I ask because my dmesg seems to indicate that many and > varied acpi buttons, ports, and sleep states have been detected, but closing > the lid (acpibtn1 apparently) doesn't seem to trigger any of these sleep > states. > > I can almost hear the knuckles being cracked in readiness to type a severe > castigation for not reading one or other relevant man page. Sorry if that's > the case. I have actually tried to work this out for myself :)
naw, not entirely sure where you are supposed to find this one, but what you want is this: > machdep.lidsuspend=0 changed to 1. Works slick if your Aspire One is like mine. One of these days, I should memorize the model of mine. :) Nick.
