[Solved] preventing standby when closing laptop lid and more.

To be blunt, I'm on the verge of insanity at this point. I'm no newcomer to Arch, but this has me beat.
In short I'm not using my asus eepc 1015pem anymore, so I decided to make it a folding machine.
Everything works as intended except when I close the lid, it automatically goes to sleep and I haven't had any luck finding a solution.
All in all I have little use for any sort of power management, and things like CPU scaling and such, should obviously not be active.
So please do let me know where I can find the information I need.
My arch installation is completely basic and brand new, should that information matter
Best regards.
Last edited by zacariaz (2012-10-21 00:37:00)

2ManyDogs wrote:
zacariaz wrote:
WonderWoofy wrote:
You need to look into the powers of logind.conf (by that I mean the man page).
Also, I don't know why you would want to turn frequency scaling off. If it makes the cpu go full speed, so be it, but if not, it would be nice to not use quite as much power.
First of all, I want to thank you for the quick reply and secondly mention that this is a very low power device which will be running at full capacity 14/7, thus these think are not needed.
If it's running at "full capacity" cpu frequency scaling will allow the CPU to run at its top speed. There is no need to remove it. If at any point full speed is not required, even a low-power device will use less power with cpu scaling, and it allows the CPU to rest and cool off a little.
But hey, it's your box.
The reason it's important is only due to the doubt that the cpu might somehow be inhibited. If that's not the case, then it doesn't matter obviously.

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- I reopen the lid, only to find my system completely locked up (no screen refresh anymore, no possibility to switch to a virtual terminal, no possibility to restart X or restart the system (Ctrl+Alt+Del/Backspace aren't working at all).
I have no action specified for closing the lid (I plan on making it do suspend to RAM as soon as this issue is cleared up). Now if I leave the USB laptop mouse plugged in all works fine. I can close the lid, open it up again, and my system remains fully usable.
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Last edited by B (2007-10-21 12:16:32)

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- iwlwifi 1.1.21
- Authentec fingerprint reader driver
I guess that should get you going pretty much . The iwlwifi drivers have been built out-of-tree since my efforts to merging in the newer mac80211 stack & latest iwlwifi drivers amounted to nothing but a boatload of patch errors :-( (yes i can hack up patches to work but I felt like not doing it, since iwlwifi builds just fine out-of-tree). This kernel is tailored to the 6510 hardware, I cannot tell what is different in the 6170b lineup, but you definitely should not try this kernel on just any machine .
If you have any questions, drop me a line.
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Update: to the latest 2.6.22.12 kernel + corresponding driver packages
Last edited by B (2007-11-11 16:39:48)

[SOLVED] how to prevent suspending/sleeping when closing laptop lid

Hi all,
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Relevant information:
acpid is installed
the configuration file /etc/acpi/handler.sh
#!/bin/bash
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PBTN|PWRF)
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button/sleep)
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SLPB|SBTN)
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esac
ac_adapter)
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AC|ACAD|ADP0)
case "$4" in
00000000)
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00000001)
logger 'AC pluged'
esac
logger "ACPI action undefined: $2"
esac
battery)
case "$2" in
BAT0)
case "$4" in
00000000)
logger 'Battery online'
00000001)
logger 'Battery offline'
esac
CPU0)
*) logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
esac
button/lid)
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close)
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open)
logger 'LID opened'
logger "ACPI action undefined: $3"
esac
case $(cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/state | awk '{print $2}') in
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open) XAUTHORITY=$(ps -C xinit -f --no-header | sed -n 's/.*-auth //; s/ -[^ ].*//; p') xset -display :0 dpms force on ;;
esac
logger "ACPI group/action undefined: $1 / $2"
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[ 1530.856658] Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.10 seconds) done.
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[ 1531.124216] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
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[ 1531.360682] mei 0000:00:16.0: suspend
[ 1531.440517] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: power state changed by ACPI to D3hot
[ 1531.687309] PM: suspend of devices complete after 722.490 msecs
[ 1531.687784] PM: late suspend of devices complete after 0.469 msecs
[ 1531.688232] pcieport 0000:00:1c.3: System wakeup enabled by ACPI
[ 1531.714222] ehci-pci 0000:00:1d.0: System wakeup enabled by ACPI
[ 1531.727619] ehci-pci 0000:00:1a.0: System wakeup enabled by ACPI
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TLP_ENABLE=1
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# Possible values strongly depend on your cpu. For available frequencies see
# tlp-stat output, Section "+++ Processor".
# Hint: Parameters are disabled by default, remove the leading # to enable them,
# otherwise kernel default values are used.
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# - This may conflict with your distribution's governor settings
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SOUND_POWER_SAVE_CONTROLLER=Y
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# when running on battery. A value of 0 disables this Feature (Default).
# Drive can be powered on again by releasing (and reinserting) the
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thanks guys
I love arch
Last edited by beitme (2013-06-08 10:05:37)

@ Karol, done
@ 65kid, here's my logind.conf
[Login]
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#ReserveVT=6
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Okay guys . I got some goodies up . For those interested:
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- iwlwifi 1.1.21
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Update: to the latest 2.6.22.12 kernel + corresponding driver packages
Last edited by B (2007-11-11 16:39:48)

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moose jaw wrote:
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What used to work to eject/unmount the drive is to shutdown the computer. Then I would unplug the drive before re-starting. Now, however, I had errors with the drive (Disk Utility) and went ahead with a force eject. That worked, and the drive still had errors that Disk Utility could not address.
I have a Macbook Pro (13-inch, mid 2012) running Mac OS X Version 10.9.2 (13C64); processor 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7 with 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 memory. My main drive is 750 GB (Macintosh HD). I also backup a firewire 400 drive to this TM drive, capacity 250 GB.
So, first question: why is this happening over and over and over? Is there anything I can do, apart from immediate removal of the TM drive after the backup completes, to ensure that it doesn't happen in the future? Should I be concerned that the disk is failing mechanically?
Thanks

I don't think you quite understand how Time Machine really works. But then hardly anyone does. Time Machine is intended to be left enabled always whether a backup drive is connected or not. What Time Machine cannot handle properly is a situation where the backup drive loses power for whatever reason. Time Machine treats this, as does the OS, as an improper disconnect of an external drive without being properly ejected. This in turn throws Time Machine a little bit of a loop.
For you I would suggest not using Time Machine. Instead use a third-party backup utility that you can either schedule or run manually as you wish. They will work with the same drive you have used for Time Machine, but you will need to first erase the Time Machine drive using Disk Utility. Please DO NOT try dragging the Time Machine backups to the Trash.
Here are some good backup utilities you can try:
Suggested Backup Software
1. Carbon Copy Cloner
2. Get Backup
3. Deja Vu
4. SuperDuper!
5. Synk Pro
6. Tri-Backup
Others may be found at MacUpdate. Each one can be used for a trial period. No need to pay for one until you've decided on which one you like best. I, for example, use Carbon Copy Cloner but please don't take that as a recommendation over the others. It's just my preference. All can be operated manually or can be set up to backup on a schedule you determine. Some can even be set up to backup as soon as the backup drive is connected.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.

Just bought my macbook pro,closed the lid and now it wants a password

closed the lid the first time after i set up the computer and now it wants a password

Did you type in a password when you set it up? If not just leave it blank.

After closing the laptop lid and opening it again, the laptop won't wake up?

The only option to wake it back up is to reset it; moving my mouse won't work. Trying to lock it won't change anything. What should I do? What's going wrong?
I have a not-even-70-days-old Satellite S855D-S5120 and my battery power plan is set at balanced. This sometimes happens, sometimes not. I could just have the laptop closed for a couple of seconds and this would still happen.

Hi Sense no one has answered your message, I'll give it my best shot. Depending on what option you chose when you close the lid, will make a difference. If you have it set to shut down, then you will have to press the power button to turn your PC back on.
I Love my Satellite L775D-S7222 Laptop. Some days you're the windshield, Some days you're the bug. The Computer world is crazy. If you have answers to computer problems, pass them forward.
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