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[vaskoiii]

Is there something I can do so when the lid is closed on my laptop nothing happens other than the screen turning off.

currently I am running Puppy 4.31JP.

Also another annoying side effect is that when the computer does suspend the mouse doesn't work on resume...

Maybe there are power options somewhere that I am not seeing.

Laptop:
fujitsu p1120

Please advise!

[Béèm]

Find the acpitool pet and install it.

[Shel]

All this stuff is controlled (I think) from scripts in the /etc/acpi subdirectory, under the control of the configuration files in /etc/acpi/events. This assumes your laptop's BIOS isn't doing something beyond Puppy's comtrol when you close the lid.

Have a look at the file /etc/acpi/events/lid ... it points to the script that gets run when you close the lid. If you rename the script (probably /etc/acpi/lid.sh) to something else (say /etc/acpi/lid.sh.disabled) I believe Puppy will do nothing when you close the lid.

To find out if you have acpitool, command "which acpitool" ... if you get a pathname, you already have it.

If you install the acpitool pet (I think Jemimah posted it originally) you can change what happens when you close the lid. In my case, I wanted standby mode, not "hibernation," but I had to write a new script to refresh the screen after the computer woke up. If not, I didn't get the whole screen.

acpitool is a command-line program; as far as I know, there's no GUI to set or change any of this stuff.

-Shel

[vaskoiii]

I just did something like:
mv /etc/acpi/???/suspend.sh /etc/acpi/???/suspend.sh.bak
vi /etc/acip/???/suspend.sh

TY!

[johnywhy]

would someone be willing to explain the above code for a noob, or offer a simpler command (acpi or other) to disable suspend on closing the lid?

thanks!

[vaskoiii]

Basically all you have to do is to open the file:
suspend.sh
:in a text editor and from there I think you should be able to configure things without to much trouble.

The line:
vi /etc/acip/???/suspend.sh
:should help you find where you can locate the suspend.sh file.

[johnywhy]

Thanks!

[JurviZ]

Thanks from me, too. This was a big help.

Just to clarify to anyone who finds this thread, if you don't want anything to happen to the system when you close the lid, just replace

/etc/acpi/actions/suspend.sh

with an empty file.

Back up the original, though, etc. etc.

[veejay]

Hai JurviZ, It worked for me. Thanks. Now as laptop lid closed, working with external 18" monitor.