On 8/20/07, Brian Buhrow <buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org> wrote:
>         Hello folks.  I'm trying to use powerd(8) to get my laptop to sleep
> and wake gracefully when the cover is closed.
> When I close the lid, the /etc/powerd/scripts/lid_switch script gets called
> with the "pressed" argument as the second argument on the command line.
> However, it does not get called at all when the lid is re-opened.
> Does anyone else experience this, and, if so, what work arounds do you go
> through to get waking to happen?
> This is with 3.x userland, with a 4.0_BETA2 kernel from March 2007.
> -thanks


Did you see/try this:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2007/08/03/0005.html