Mine is a dell inspiron 7500 and the air is taken from the side and pushed out the
back. So having the laptop lid closed while doing longer compiles would be great.
So there is no way to tell the APMD not to run or even egknowledge the standy or
suspends events. It would seem to me that there would be a way to tell it to do 
nothing. There are kernel options for everything else like "no power off"
and "no standy" why is there no "no suspend"? Just wondering


-----Original Message-----
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
Sent: Oct 8, 2003 6:45 AM
To: Nicholas Ricketts <nightshade@phreaker.net>
Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: APM and laptops

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 02:15:07AM -0700, Nicholas Ricketts wrote:
> 
> I was wondering if there is a way to disable the apm functions on a latop
> lid. When I close my lid I want nothing to happned. But it always goes to
> sleep. I already tried putting in the APM_NO_STANDBY in kernel and still
> would go to sleep when I closed the lid. Any ideas?

This is often a very bad idea -- many laptops have exhaust blower fans,
and exhaust vents, on the sides, but draw _fresh_ air for cooling through
the keyboard (or the reverse).  If you leave them running with the lid
shut, well, the potential consequences are obvious...

-- 
 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
   But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
 objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp!  You towel!  
You
 plate!" and so on.              --Sigmund Freud