unix laptop question: closing the lid

[Jesse Adelman]

Hi, Strata,

Check out these two web sites:

http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/tp600lnx.htm

and

http://www.linux-laptop.net/

The first site is the home of Thomas Hood's excellent "Debian GNU/Linux
on the Thinkpad 600" You may be saying "but I have a 770" - don't miss
his excellent tpctl utilities for controlling the firmware of the
Thinkpads, including system state.

The second site is a general site for Linux on Laptops.

I have a Thinkpad 600X with dual-boot W2K and Red Hat 7.3 + Ximian, and
it's sweet. Got rsync+ssh syncing backups to my desktop, and
de-uglified the fonts (via Thomas Hood's site), and I've got a slick
machine. Not using it for a "server", but I do use it in my consulting
work to demonstrate Web apps I'm testing and deploying using Apache.

Good luck,
Jesse Adelman

--- Strata Rose Chalup <strata at virtual.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Can anyone point me to an easy way to have BSD or Linux running on
> a laptop and *not* go to sleep or hibernate when the lid is closed?
> 
> Here in our motorhome, space is at a premium, and cats roam all
> horizontal surfaces.  Thus re-using my old laptop as a server
> requires
> that the lid be kept closed.  Sure, I could break off the plastic
> flanges that activate the "lid is closed" microswitch, but I would
> really rather not trash the laptop.  Of course, if the screen is on
> all the time with the lid closed, that generates quite a bit of
> heat from the backlighting, so I need a way to lie to APM and have
> it turn off the screen for me, too.
> 
> The laptop in question is a Thinkpad 770.  I haven't decided for 
> sure if I am going to run NetBSD or RedHat on it.  I'll be 
> administering it via the local LAN.
> 
> thanks much,
> Strata
> 
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