Resume with ACPI doesn't work on ThinkPad R50e

[Marcin Jessa]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:17:33 -0400
David Scheidt <dscheidt at panix.com> wrote:

> 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.

You are correct. One can just comment or never add that option to the
sysctl.conf.