Resume with ACPI doesn't work on ThinkPad R50e

[David Scheidt]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 05:50:28AM +0200, Par Leijonhufvud wrote:
> 
> I prefer not to do automatic suspend for the lid close, since I sometimes
> leave it on for longer periods, e.g. so that cron can do some regular
> tasks overnight, and want to protect the keyboard from cats. Would
> setting some value (which?) for the lid close help? I get the impression
> that even S1 does stop things from running, which is not what I want

hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=NONE

in /etc/sysctl.conf should do the trick.  I'm rather under the
impression that that's the  default, though.

David