Dell Inspiron 8600

[Nate Lawson]

Igor Partola wrote:
> Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> 
>> I also added this, which turns off the LCD when pressing suspend:
>> notify 10 {
>>        match "system"          "ACPI";
>>        match "subsystem"       "Button";
>>        match "notify"          "0x01";
>>        action  "/sbin/sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active=0";
>> };
>>
>> Turning the LCD back on, when resuming, needs to be done manually. I
>> think /etc/rc.{suspend,resume} is a better place for this.
>>  
>>
> This does indeed work (just like the lid switch thing), thank you. One 
> problem though is that
> rc.resume is not read in all cases. While acpiconf honors it, just 
> hitting the suspend button and
> resuming (hitting the power button) does not turn the lcd back on. Is 
> there a way to fix this?

Yes, this is a deficiency in the current usermode interface.  If you 
look at my web page, I have a description of how to fix this if someone 
wants to do it.  It includes implementing the /dev/apm suspend/standby 
compatibility ioctls including a timeout interface.  See the "Implement 
X suspend/resume notification" section below.

http://www.root.org/~nate/freebsd/acpi-todo.html

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Nate