Lid close - nothing happens!

cyberius · 2008-08-30 11:36:18

Hi!

I have installed Arch Linux and it's really nice. I really love it. Simply beautifull!
I followed the wiki tutorial completely, very, very helpful.

But:

When I close my laptop lid the screen doesn't standby! How can I enable this?
I goes standby after 5 minutes, this I configured in xorg.

I have @laptop-mode in my daemons in rc.conf. Or do I have to do sth with acpid?

Thanks!

pjjanak · 2008-08-30 14:56:44

You need to have acpid running to do standby with acpi and you probably will need something like HAL for doing regular standby from the system menus. Also, make sure you user is in the "power" group:

gpasswd -a USER power

Gullible Jones · 2008-08-30 16:18:44

If you're using Gnome or KDE, you can configure this in the power manager settings. If you're not, though, you probably need acpid.

whargoul · 2008-08-30 16:54:14

I think he is talking about putting the _screen_ in standby.

cyberius · 2008-08-30 16:59:15

Yes what I mean is that the screen turns off, when I close the lid, to save energy

chochem · 2008-08-30 21:30:28

I think that the acpid handler.sh script (in /etc/acpi) is supposed to take care of these sorts of things, see the wiki article on acpid. If you are running acpid, and it doesn't do as the handler script tells it , you might have some acpi/bios problems (welcome to the club...). But I'd read up on acpid first...

BTW how can you tell that the screen does not turn off? Turn off the lights and see the screen light coming out through the cracks?

whargoul · 2008-08-30 23:11:16

chochem wrote:

BTW how can you tell that the screen does not turn off? Turn off the lights and see the screen light coming out through the cracks?

At least for my laptop, the lid is a little button near the screen. When I close the screen down, the lid button gets pressed by a little plastic thingy.

SiC · 2008-08-31 23:20:04

When I closed the lid, I had to get acpid to issue the relevant pm-utils command for when I close the lid.

If you edit /etc/acpi/handler.sh you should find that there is a "button/lid)" section. Underneath there I just put the line

/usr/bin/pm-suspend

And then you should find that your laptop will suspend when you close the lid fine.

cyberius · 2008-09-01 11:20:29

SiC wrote:

When I closed the lid, I had to get acpid to issue the relevant pm-utils command for when I close the lid.
If you edit /etc/acpi/handler.sh you should find that there is a "button/lid)" section. Underneath there I just put the line
/usr/bin/pm-suspend

Thanks, works, now I have to get pm-suspend working.. (my laptop doesn't wake up after suspending, but that's another topic)

BTW how can you tell that the screen does not turn off? Turn off the lights and see the screen light coming out through the cracks?

Every linux-geek lives in a dark, deep basement... ;D

jetsabel · 2008-09-17 14:02:27

this is a helpfull thread! if anyone like me wants only to turn the screen off (i want the laptop to continue playing music but just turn lcd backlight off to conserve energy) you can make the button/lid section run a script that contains

xset dpms force suspend

EDIT: hmmm its not working as expected and no time to fix now..but you get the general idea

Last edited by jetsabel (2008-09-17 14:14:05)

finferflu · 2008-09-17 14:55:02

chochem wrote:

I think that the acpid handler.sh script (in /etc/acpi) is supposed to take care of these sorts of things, see the wiki article on acpid. If you are running acpid, and it doesn't do as the handler script tells it , you might have some acpi/bios problems (welcome to the club...). But I'd read up on acpid first...
BTW how can you tell that the screen does not turn off? Turn off the lights and see the screen light coming out through the cracks?

Ah! that was a good tip, I have finally solved this problem
Thank you! (why didn't I look it up before?)

wuischke · 2008-09-17 14:58:05

My laptop does this automatically...indepentant of the operating system. Anyway, to turn off the screen in X use "xset dpms force off".

faw · 2008-09-19 10:00:08

I've been trying to get the handler script to start vlock when I close my lid. I'm using handler.sh to run the command 'su -c "vlock -n" faw' so that it locks X and all the terminals down, but when I log back in I need to get past vlock twice (vlock unlocks once, I can see X for half a second, then it locks it down again). After commenting out the vlock command and uncommenting the echo "LID switched!" line I can see two echoes being sent to tty5, once when the lid is being closed, and again when the lid is being opened, so this means any command gets run twice. How do I set it up so that it runs a command only when closing the lid?

Cheers,

kludge · 2008-10-28 07:44:02

wuischke wrote:

My laptop does this automatically...indepentant of the operating system. Anyway, to turn off the screen in X use "xset dpms force off".

so does mine! (thinkpad a21m) and that's a good thing, because it nothing i can figure out issues a "button/lid" acpi event.

but come to think of it, it would be nice to have something like

on_lid_close {
if power==ac blank_screen
else sleep
}

"button/lid" isn't the only event that doesn't get sent, though. my acpi is fricking weird. but that's in another post.

-kludge

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