On 11/08/10 20:01, mark hellewell wrote:
quoted text > Hello,
>
> I installed 4.8 on this 'netbook' as soon as my CD set arrived -- thought
> I'd give it a go what with the new ACPI work that's been done -- and, aside
> from an AR5424-based ath wireless adapter that doesn't want to connect to
> any network available to me, everything else seems to be working well. I'll
> tinker with my ath problems some more before resorting to list help,
> however...
>
> My question now is: is there something special I have to do, or something
> obvious I have (clearly) missed, to permit the system to act on acpi related
> kqueue events? I ask because my dmesg seems to indicate that many and
> varied acpi buttons, ports, and sleep states have been detected, but closing
> the lid (acpibtn1 apparently) doesn't seem to trigger any of these sleep
> states.
>
> I can almost hear the knuckles being cracked in readiness to type a severe
> castigation for not reading one or other relevant man page. Sorry if that's
> the case. I have actually tried to work this out for myself :)
naw, not entirely sure where you are supposed to find this one, but what
you want is this:
quoted text > machdep.lidsuspend=0
changed to 1.
Works slick if your Aspire One is like mine. One of these days, I
should memorize the model of mine. :)
Nick.
