Re: prevent APM-Standby on lid-close

[Ivar Alm <octo@acc.umu.se>]

At 18:24 2003-01-20, Derek Broughton wrote:
> From: "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@debian.org>
>
> > On Monday 20 January 2003 08:11, Christian Link wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > how can i prevent the APM Daemon to send my notebook into standby mode
> > > when I close the lid. I'm using Debian Woody, got an Inspiron 5000e and
> > > have kernel 2.4.19-ck7 with APM turned on an not checked 'Ignore User
> > > Suspend'. I guess there's an entry to comment in one of the APM config
> > > files.
> > >
> >
> > most laptops config this in BIOS.
>
> Really?  Not either of the laptops I've owned (a Dell Inspiron and a 
> Thinkpad),
> and since it's an option in every version of Windows I've used, M$ obviously
> expects it to be under software control.  I know how I would enable/disable
> standby on my Inspiron using ACPI, but I don't know what you'd do with APM.

On my (a little older) Thinkpad 290, the setting is in BIOS. Cannot 
remember the exact syntax there, but it has to do with lid close. The auto 
suspend annoyed me a lot until I managed to fint it and turn it off.
//I
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