[LUNI] thinkpad pwmgnt issue

[Serge Hallyn]

Not familiar with debian, but is there anything under /etc/acpi?  In
particular, do you
have an /etc/acpi/events/lid file?

-serge

On 6/26/07, Seva Epsteyn <seva at sevatech.com> wrote:
> I've used some ThinkPads for a while and pre Fedora Core 6 I would add
> "acpi_sleep=s3_bios" to the kernel parameters in grub.conf to make
> button/lid events work as expected.
>
> You should check out some of the setup write-ups for T41 here for some
> more tips: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html
>
> -Seva
>
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, sjk wrote:
>
> >  Pribyl wrote:
> > > Check the bios settings, I think there is a option there.
> >
> > Yes -- there is a setting in the bios for suspend on lid close -- it has
> > been disabled -- should have shared that originally.
> >
> > This shows up in the acpid logs:
> >
> > [Tue Jun 26 12:18:12 2007] received event "button/lid LID 00000080 00000001"
> > [Tue Jun 26 12:18:12 2007] completed event "button/lid LID 00000080
> > 00000001"
> > [Tue Jun 26 12:18:13 2007] received event "button/lid LID 00000080 00000002"
> > [Tue Jun 26 12:18:13 2007] completed event "button/lid LID 00000080
> > 00000002"
> >
> >
> > But there is no action defined for these HKEYs
> >
> >
> > > Steve
> > >> Hoping someone out there has run into this: I have an IBM T41 running
> > >> 2.6.18.3 with Debian testing. While on battery, if I close the lid the
> > >> machine goes into hibernate. I can find no script which is invoking the
> > >> acpi call -- in fact it occurs even after I stop acpid.I think it's
> > >> related to the settings in /proc/acpi, but I can't see anything defining
> > >> a lid function.
> > >>
> > >> This is really annoying as once the machine does into hibernate, I can't
> > >> get it to come out without rebooting or forcing suspend to disk and then
> > >> recover from that -- which hoses X.
> > >>
> > >> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> > >>
> > >> Thanks -- sjk
> >
> >
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