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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