topic title: Laptop suspend [SOLVED]
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rebbi2
Joined: 06 Apr 2009
#1
Hi, Folks,
I'm sure this question must have been answered somewhere on this forum but I can't find it. My old Dell laptop runs great under Antix, but I can't figure out where to find the setting that would enable it to go into suspend mode when I close the laptop lid. I know that suspend will work because I can put it into suspend in the logout menu. So where do I set it up to respond to the laptop lid switch with suspend?
Thanks in advance.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#2
Maybe?


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rebbi2
Joined: 06 Apr 2009
#3
rokytnji wrote:Maybe?


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Hmmm.... I'll have a look. Thanks.
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rebbi2
Joined: 06 Apr 2009
#4
rokytnji wrote:Maybe?


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I looked and I found the scripts on my HD but what to do with them is a little over my head. Guikdance, anyone?
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#5
I think what you need is in /etc/default/acpi-support. Look for this line

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# Uncomment this to enable ACPI sleep when the lid screen is closed.
#LID_SLEEP=true
and try uncommenting the LID_SLEEP line.
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rebbi2
Joined: 06 Apr 2009
#6
dolphin_oracle wrote:I think what you need is in /etc/default/acpi-support. Look for this line

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# Uncomment this to enable ACPI sleep when the lid screen is closed.
#LID_SLEEP=true
and try uncommenting the LID_SLEEP line.
This worked! Amazing, thank you. I'd never have figured this out on my own. __{{emoticon}}__
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jdmeaux1952
Joined: 01 Nov 2013
#7
One of the biggest problems is for newbies (and oldsters too) to find which folder to look in to make corrections.
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rebbi2
Joined: 06 Apr 2009
#8
Although I have been messing around the with Linux for seven or eight years, and I've edited my share of configuration files in that time, this is really the kind of thing that could use a graphical front-end. It would be nice if the Antix configuration panel had a tab for"Energy Settings" like some other distributions do. Just saying.
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dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#9
a lot of us install xfce4-power-manager for this sort of thing. it doesn't pull in near the dependencies you might think.