In message <E1A7AU7-0001ZC-00@avocet.mail.pas.earthlink.net>, Nicholas Ricketts
 writes:
>
>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?
>

Check your BIOS -- that's the way I accomplished the same goal on my 
Thinkpad T21.

Beyond that, I *think* that the acpi support in -current can be 
persuaded to do what you want, at least in principle.  But I don't run 
-current on my laptop, so I haven't played with that.  (acpi does evil 
things on my -current desktop.)

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb