Subject: Re: APM and laptops
To: None <nightshade@phreaker.net, port-i386@NetBSD.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/08/2003 05:25:44
> I was wondering if there is a way to disable the apm functions on a
> latop lid. When I close my lid I want nothing to happned. But it
> always goes to sleep. I already tried putting in the APM_NO_STANDBY
> in kernel and still would go to sleep when I closed the lid. Any
> ideas?
Well, in my case, I was certain I wanted to disable such functionality
permanently, so I got out my knife and shaved off the little plastic
bump that works the switch by which the machine sensed lid closure.
Low-tech but, in my case, satisfactory.
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