[Debian-eeepc-devel] eeepc-acpi-scripts integration: please test

[Luca Niccoli]

On 14 May 2010 01:23, Santi Béjar <santi at agolina.net> wrote:

> Well in fact there is another regression. Closing the lid no longer suspend
> the machine. I suppose the same happens as with the volumes, that almost all
> desktop environments respond to lid events, but then I don't know why
> xscreensever is treated differently. (I know that the lid code now is from
> acpi-support).

If you are running a power manager, than you just need to configure it
(on Xfce that would probably be xfce4-power-manager)
If you aren't, then acpi-support just blanks your screen and maybe
tries to lock it.
IIRC there was some discussion on debian-eee arguing that this
behaviour could be thermally dangerous, but I don't remember the
outcome.
If it is especially dangerous for the eee because of its
peculiarities, I guess we'll have to find a way to suspend anyway.
It could be not exactly trivial, though.
Cheers,

Luca