[arch-general] intel video & suspend

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Ray Rashif's message of 2010-06-18 09:54:55 +0200:
> On 18 June 2010 15:36, Christoph Rissner <c.r at visotech.at> wrote:
> > On 05/07/2010 07:16 PM, Isaac Dupree wrote:
> >>
> >> please inform us, what does "xset dpms force off" do?  And for what
> >> circumstances/purpose do you use it?
> >
> > Sorry it took so long, I missed your reply.
> >
> > "xset dpms force off" is supposed to turn off the screen immediately using
> > DPMS, at least thats what it seems to do.
> > I just don't want to suspend (suspend the whole system to RAM) everytime I
> > close the lid, rather I like it to continue to work on whatever I told it to
> > do :-)
> 
> That _is_ the default behaviour - the laptop should do nothing at all
> when the lid is closed. I know of no particular hardware/BIOS that
> sets a sleep action upon lid closure. It is only altered by userspace
> tools/daemons like for eg. when using a DE. You might want to check
> what else is enforcing a rule to the lid-closing state.

Mine does turn off the backlight, and I'm quite sure there's no
userspace involved, just plain hardware/bios. No idea whether others do
more than that. Turning off the backlight seems like reasonably safe
thing to do.
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Regards,
Philipp

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