LaptopTestingTeam notes and updates

Sivan Green sivan at piware.de
Mon Aug 29 14:55:03 CDT 2005


On 12:42, Mon 29 Aug 05, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 03:35:14PM -0400, Alvin Thompson wrote:
> > Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > >On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:14:48PM +0800, Jerome Gotangco wrote:
> > >
> > >>>"Lid Close" - what is supposed to happen?
> > >>
> > >>It is supposed to put your unit to sleep (this is usually the setting
> > >>in Windows). Most of the time in Linux, the LCD will just turn off.
> > >
> > >
> > >Not by default in Ubuntu; we don't attempt to suspend the system when the
> > >lid is closed.
> > 
> > is there a way to change it so closing the lid does suspend? also, how 
> > about locking the screen as the default?
> 
> Currently the only way to configure these features is by editing the
> configuration file /etc/default/acpi-support.
> 

I recall talks and plans prior to breezy about making
desktop support for that, wasn't that eventually
implemented?

Sivan



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