Re: Lid support.

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Fri Apr 27 2001 - 05:44:11 EST

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Hi!

> I assume there is no generic APM support for lid-close?
> My BIOS (P100 DEC CTS5100 Hinote VP) has no way to do anything other
> than beep, when the lid is closed, so I'm using a hack that polls the
> ct65548 video chips registers to find when the BIOS turns the LCD off,
> so I can do whatever.
>
> Or is there a better wya?

Yes, going ACPI. But you'll need current acpi, not the one in 2.4.3

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