Re: Laptop display stays on with lid closed

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:01:58PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:

On 12/20/06, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I only noticed this now, thought it is a hardware
>glitch. My laptop display - and its backlight -
>stay on when I close the lid. Shouldn't it be
>turned off like in an OS-independent way?..

To answer my own question, I ended up using a cool
app named radeontool (sysutils/). Clearly, I'm
lucky to have a Radeon in my laptop. Now I just
have to figure out how to call a script on lid
open/close event.

put into /etc/devd.conf and reload devd:

notify 10 {
match "system" "ACPI";
match "subsystem" "Lid";
action "/etc/rc.lid $notify";
};

Then in /etc/rc.lid:

#!/bin/sh
STAT=$1

if [ $STAT = 0x00 ]; then
logger -t Lid $STAT Close at `date +'%Y%m%d %H:%M:%S'`
# do something for lid close event here
else
logger -t Lid $STAT Open at `date +'%Y%m%d %H:%M:%S'`
# do something for lid open event here
fi

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