Close lid on laptop with FC4 without going to sleep
Espen Stefansen
espenas at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 20:58:09 UTC 2005
On 6/20/05, Charles E Taylor IV <tomalek at mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 21:02:07 +0200 Espen Stefansen <espenas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I got a laptop that i just installed FC4 on and that i want to be up
> > and running all the time, with it's lid closed. The problem is that
> > every time i close the lid, it goes to "sleep". So i cant ssh to it or
> > anything.
>
> If you're using ACPI, you probably want to poke around /etc/acpi/events
> and look for the event that's being triggered when the lid closes.
>
> If you're using APM (i.e. on an older machine), you'll probably have to
> disable suspend-on-lid-close in your BIOS.
>
> A little more info about this laptop would help ... I use an old
> Thinkpad 570E as a print server / internet gateway. It runs all the
> time with the lid shut.
>
It's a Dell Inspiron 4100, and it uses ACPI. And in the log it says
"recieved event: button / lid".
I looked around in /etc/acpi/events and all i found was the sample.
But i'm not sure how to make a acpi event and action.
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