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

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

On Wed, 09 May 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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 

I was not talking about calling _DSS per se, but calling it when you get lid
events.  Nevertheless, it was actually a big thinko.  It probably won't
break anything, as you said.  Sorry about that.

And, if it is actually needed to turn the backlight back on when you press
the lid *without triggering a suspend*, then it is probably going to be
necessary.

> 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.

Correct.  As I said, it was a thinko on my part.

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