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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:44:11 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Ian Stirling <root@mauve.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Lid support.
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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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