From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jan 14 11:20:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A3D837B430 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:20:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE20543EB2 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:20:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 24645 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2003 19:20:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 14 Jan 2003 19:20:21 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0EJKEUT007149; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:20:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030114004958.F3206-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:20:25 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Vincent Poy Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook Cc: current@freebsd.org, mobile@freebsd.org, Scott Long Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 14-Jan-2003 Vincent Poy wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Scott Long wrote: > >> Vincent Poy wrote: >> >> > Greetings: >> > >> > Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook? I'm >> > trying to figure out if there is a way to prevent the notebook from >> > suspending when the lid is closed. Thanks. >> >> I have that notebook, and I have the same problem. Setting the hw.acpi >> sysctls that control the sleep states and actions doesn't seem to make a >> difference. Disabling acpi might make it work (haven't tried), but then >> it probably won't route interrupts from the cardbus slots anymore. >> >> Scott > > Hmmm, I don't have anything in my cardbus slots since everything > is on the Mini-PCI but what does your sysctl hw.acpi.lid_switch_state show > for the current setting? > > vince@bigbang [2:50am][~] >> sysctl hw.acpi.lid_switch_state > hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: NONE > > This is after I did /sbin/sysctl -w hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=NONE > in /etc/rc.local as that works fine on my IBM ThinkPad 770Z. Try 'S0' instead of 'NONE' and see if that works. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message