2001-04-26 00:08:37

by Ian Stirling

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Subject: Lid support.

I assume there is no generic APM support for lid-close?
My BIOS (P100 DEC CTS5100 Hinote VP) has no way to do anything other
than beep, when the lid is closed, so I'm using a hack that polls the
ct65548 video chips registers to find when the BIOS turns the LCD off,
so I can do whatever.

Or is there a better wya?


2001-04-29 11:32:59

by Pavel Machek

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Subject: Re: Lid support.

Hi!

> I assume there is no generic APM support for lid-close?
> My BIOS (P100 DEC CTS5100 Hinote VP) has no way to do anything other
> than beep, when the lid is closed, so I'm using a hack that polls the
> ct65548 video chips registers to find when the BIOS turns the LCD off,
> so I can do whatever.
>
> Or is there a better wya?

Yes, going ACPI. But you'll need current acpi, not the one in 2.4.3

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2001-04-29 17:06:11

by Ian Stirling

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Subject: Re: Lid support.

>
> Hi!
>
> > I assume there is no generic APM support for lid-close?
> > My BIOS (P100 DEC CTS5100 Hinote VP) has no way to do anything other
> > than beep, when the lid is closed, so I'm using a hack that polls the
> > ct65548 video chips registers to find when the BIOS turns the LCD off,
> > so I can do whatever.
> >
> > Or is there a better wya?
>
> Yes, going ACPI. But you'll need current acpi, not the one in 2.4.3

Is ACPI really likely to be in a Sep 95 laptop?

Isn't it usually mentioned in the BIOS?