[acpi-jp 2724] Re: Dell D800 ACPI Issues

[Mike Hunter]

On Oct 08, "Philip Paeps" wrote:

> On 2003-10-05 13:47:39 (-0700), Mike Hunter <mhunter at ack.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
> > > I will follow-up this post with some results of acpiconf...but I want to
> > > send this first because I seem to remember that it makes my computer crash
> > > :)
> > 
> > Here are some results:
> > 
> > The computer does not crash when I close the lid, but the lcd does not turn
> > off.
> 
> Does the lcd go off properly when you use the lid switch with acpi disabled?

Wow...it does!  I noticed it gives sound playback some hickups, but other
than that the compuer keeps humming along, and the lcd goes off.

Am I going to do thermal damage to my laptop if I keep it running with the
lid closed?

> > My goal is to get the lcd to turn off when I close the lid...anything more
> > than that would be great too.
> 
> My laptop also does scary things when I go into S-anything-other-than-5.  By
> telling acpi to keep off the lid switch, I found that it just causes the lcd
> to go off without triggering any acpi events.  
> 
> Try in loader.conf:
> 
>   debug.acpi.disable="lid"

Cool, I'll give that a shot.

Thanks,

Mike