[linux-laptop] close the cover

Karol Kozimor sziwan at hell.org.pl
Wed Dec 28 11:18:58 EST 2005


Thus wrote vexster at gmail.com:
> kernel 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4 and i actually would like 
> that when i close the cover nothing would happen ...
> no sleep, no shutdown, no hybernate, nothing ... but no way.
> 
> I have apm supported and enabled (even if it doesn't
> work so well), but i'm afraid that my bios doesn't
> support acpi :(( ... and i've found no drivers for this.

With APM, you're out of luck, the BIOS just does what it wants. If you're
lucky, you might be able to tune it through the BIOS setup. If you want
more control, use ACPI.
Best regards,

-- 
Karol 'sziwan' Kozimor
sziwan at hell.org.pl


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