Am I misunderstanding something? when I dock my laptop I have to close the lid  and 
everything
keeps merily functioning...
Lionel
<snip>
> When you close the lid the BIOS will try to force the OS to go to sleep.
> If you manage to turn of all support for APM in the kernel and all
> drivers (including X) the BIOS should fail and the computer would run
> the same way as it does with the lid open. Except for stuff that the
> computer can handle by itself, as backlight. Not 100% on how its
> actually done (if its purely Bios, or if you can directly access the
> information from HW. Probably both).
</snip> 


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