FC-2 laptop question

[Cam]

Shaun

>> My lid conf file looks like:
>> event=button/lid.*
>> action=echo -n 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep
> 
> 
> How did you know that that was the correct action to take for the lid? I 
> don't see that sort of thing on the apcid man page. I can see what the 
> events are from the logs, and the man page tells me what syntax to use 
> to tell it what to do for a given event, but it doesn't tell me what I 
> can choose from for any given event.

I have a little experience but not with acpi, so I did some google 
searching and background reading. There are some things you can do with 
the /proc/acpi interface to change states, suspend and so on. Some 
people would say that /sys/power/state is more appropriate.

It's not so much what is the correct thing for the lid, as what you want 
the machine to do. If you wanted it to just turn the display off and 
nothing else then you could arrange for that to happen by putting in the 
correct command.

In general you can put shell commands in there so use anything that you 
can do as root from a shell that is the right behaviour.

-Cam