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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, luming.yu@intel.com
Subject: Re: Laptop screen doesn't come on when lid is reopened
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 23:04:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070509220412.GA12440@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070509220007.GC9055@khazad-dum.debian.net>

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:00:07PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> 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.

Why would it do that? The obvious risk is that calling _DSS would break 
things, but I haven't seen that on Thinkpads. I don't think Len's 
proposing not passing the lid event through to userspace as well.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-09 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-06 20:17 Laptop screen doesn't come on when lid is reopened Daniel Drake
2007-05-09 15:48 ` Len Brown
2007-05-09 22:00   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-05-09 22:04     ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2007-05-09 22:30       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-06-01  3:03   ` Daniel Drake

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