[Debian-eeepc-devel] Temporarily disabling lid-close-suspend

[Phil Endecott]

Hi everyone,

My Eee suspends when the lid is closed, which is normally what I want.  
But occasionally I want to close the lid and not suspend.  I have tried 
to set it up so that I can press one of the soft buttons and lid 
suspend is disabled for a minute.  Here is my attempt:

in hotkey.sh:

     0000001d)
         touch /var/run/no_lid_suspend
         { sleep 60; rm /var/run/no_lid_suspend; } &
         ;;

in lid.sh:

if [ -f /var/run/no_lid_suspend ]
then
   exit 0
fi

There's just one snag with this: it now suspends when I _open_ the lid! 
(if I've waited for a minute with the lid closed of course).  It seems 
that lid.sh gets run for both lid-close and lid-open events, and the 
call to suspend.sh from lid.sh is not conditional on which it was.

Although this doesn't matter in normal operation (since you'll never 
get a lid-open event if the preceeding lid-close event triggered a 
suspend) I can't imagine that it's what you intended.

For actions other than suspend - for example, screenblank - it would 
make sense to have separate lid-close.sh and lid-open.sh scripts.  
Looking at the output of acpi_listen I see:

button/lid LID 00000080 00000006   <=== lid close
button/lid LID 00000080 00000007   <=== lid open
button/lid LID 00000080 00000008   <=== lid close
button/lid LID 00000080 00000009   <=== lid open
button/lid LID 00000080 0000000a   <=== lid close
button/lid LID 00000080 0000000b   <=== lid open

Hmm.  Does anyone know how I should interpret this?  Is it valid to 
assume that the least significant bit of the last field tells me 
whether it was an open or a close event?  (Is this documented 
somewhere?)  Or maybe there is some other file somewhere to read to 
determine the new state after getting the event.

Regards,  Phil.