ACPI Lid Question

brokenflea · 12-31-2005, 02:55 AM

I'm running slackware 10.2 on kernel 2.6.13
I'm trying to get my notebook to a state where if i close the lid, it goes into standby. this is the script i have in /etc/acpi/actions (lm_lid.sh)

Code:

#!/bin/bash
if [ "`cut -d " " -f 20 /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state`" = "open" ]
        then
                logger "ACPI: Lid open. Not going into suspend"
        else
                killall wpa_supplicant
                rmmod ndiswrapper
                echo -n "standby" > /sys/power/state
fi

When i close the lid, it works fine, the notebook goes into standby. The problem is when i open the lid the notebook goes back to normal operation for a second and then goes back to standby. It sorta gets stuck in a loop. What am I doing wrong here ? Any help would be gladly appreciated.

TIA

samwwwblack · 12-31-2005, 05:09 AM

I'm not an expert in acpi or anything, but looking at your script the default is to standby, which I would change to:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

if [ "`cut -d " " -f 20 /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state`" = "closed" ]
        then
                killall wpa_supplicant
                rmmod ndiswrapper
                echo -n "standby" > /sys/power/state
        else
                logger "ACPI: Lid open. Not going into suspend"

fi

I would think this would fill the logs with "ACPI: Lid open"'s :-)

edit: Noticed a bad error on my part