Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron 8200 notebook

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> 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.

That doesn't work for me.  After switching from S1 to S0 and
closing the lid, the machine still suspends.  Plus, it never
wakes up.  It needs a power on, and then the subsequent fsck's
when FreeBSD boots again.

-- 
Dan Eischen


To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message