Re: Laptop screen doesn't come on when lid is reopened

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Wed, 09 May 2007, Len Brown wrote:
> Assuming that it works on the Dells, hopefully more
> than the Dells, and doesn't break any others...
...
> Then the button driver should take the lid event and
> cause the code in the video driver to be invoked.
> I'm not sure what the best method for inter-driver
> event like this, since both of them can be modules.

It will break all laptops which don't do anything special on lid events
other than report it to the OS, so that we can do whatever we want
(typically tell HAL or some script to suspend if the lid is closed).  Like,
say, thinkpads.

> Finally, the video driver should have suspend/resume methods
> that poke _DSS and that should fix the Dell video on S3.

Yes, that seems like a good idea.

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