Laptop display stays on with lid closed

[Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]]

Hi Andrew,

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 21:01, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> On 12/20/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > I only noticed this now, thought it is a hardware
> > glitch. My laptop display - and its backlight -
> > stay on when I close the lid. Shouldn't it be
> > turned off like in an OS-independent way?..
>
> To answer my own question, I ended up using a cool
> app named radeontool (sysutils/). Clearly, I'm
> lucky to have a Radeon in my laptop. Now I just
> have to figure out how to call a script on lid
> open/close event.

Have a look at /etc/devd.conf . You should be able to add an event to it with 
system="ACPI" and subsystem="Lid".

-- 
Daan