Starting up a closed laptop

I have a Macbook Pro connected to a monitor, and I'm wondering if it's possible to start up without opening the lid, as with my setup , I have to unplug everything to open up, start up, then sleep the computer, plug back in etc. Programing it to start at a certain time is not what I'm looking for, I want to start and shut down at will.

Might you somehow be able to use the Wake on LAN feature? I'm not really familiar with how it operates, but theoretically another computer on the network could shoot a signal over to turn on that computer.
Of course, if you use Airport, this wouldn't be feasible.
Are you sure you can't simply use the sleep feature instead of completely shutting down? Power consumption is negligible, and time to full functionality is far less.

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I have an apple tv 3 but when i use Home Sharing from my Windows Laptop the Apple TV shows all my music on the TV but it will only play 1 or 2 songs and then stops!!! Annoying, so I have to re-start iTunes on my Laptop and it will play 1 or 2 more songs

I have an apple tv 3 but when i use Home Sharing from my Windows Laptop the Apple TV shows all my music on the TV but it will only play 1 or 2 songs and then stops!!! Annoying, so I have to re-start iTunes on my Laptop and it will play 1 or 2 more songs then stops again!!! still annoying.
Can anyone assist me with this issue?
Thanks

To downgrade, you'll need to download the previous software version here: ATV3 http://appldnld.apple.com/AppleTV/041-4361.20120605.grjot/AppleTV3,1_5.0.2_9B830 _Restore.ipsw
ATV2: http://appldnld.apple.com/AppleTV/041-4362.20120605.t8i4U/AppleTV2,1_5.0.2_9B830 _Restore.ipsw
Next, plug the Apple TV into your computer with a micro-usb cable (most phones today use these) and start up Itunes. It should detect the Apple TV in recovery.
After that, hold down Option on Apple or Alt on Windows and click Restore. This should open a window that allows you to select the software update you want to apply. Select the one you downloaded earlier.
It will then go through the restore process, which takes only a few minutes, and then you will be able to plug the Apple TV back in to your display and set it up again.
I recently ran into a similar issue with a bunch of these things and after restoring them all to the previous software version they are working again.

Hey there, whenever i try to start iTunes in my laptop amsg coming up saying : data execution prevention prevented iTunes from starting (Dep), would you Pls help me out.I have windows vista installed.

hey there, whenever i try to start iTunes in my laptop amsg coming up saying : data execution prevention prevented iTunes from starting (Dep), would you Pls help me out.I have windows vista installed.

No, i do not have quickTime player.
I have tried to close dep off for iTunes but failed to do so as i got a msg that iTunes can't work without Dep in execution data prevention.

Can't start video, try closing other programs that might be using your webcam

I am using skype on win8. It was perfectly fine until last week. This message "can't start video, try closing other programs that might be using your webcam" is always there. I investigated this problem in the forum. I did this but it did not help at all. I checked nothing was using webcam! Try to reset skype settings Exit Skype : From the system tray >> right click on the skype icon and click "Quit Skype" Click Start >> Run Type: %appdata% Rename folder "Skype" to "Old_Skype" Re-run Skype
I tried some other chatting software and it gives me the same problem. However, the metro app camara is working perfectly fine. I have the latest driver and I also tried another webcam from logitech and it gives the same problem!!!!

Most likely this is one of the registry keys that need to be modified. However, be very careful when you make any changes to your Registry Database. Make always a copy of this data base before making any changes, so you can always revert to the original settings if something will go wrong. The relevant keys are these that refer to Imaging devices. On my system I have 3 such devices: Logitech c920 webcam, LifeCam VX-5000 webcam and CanoScan LiDE 25 Scanner. The last is installed but not currently connected to the computer. You can make a search in your registry database using this item: imaging devices. For all the items I could find on my system, the main key of the type, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet00X\Control\Class\{6BDD1FC6-810F-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F} was looking like this: There is neither LowerFilters nor UpperFilters value defined. You can open the subkeys of the type 0000, 0001, 0002, etc. and see what device they are referring to.

Upon start up of my laptop I get a APS Daemon.exe system error - MSVCR80.dll is missing. This just started out of the blue. At one point it told me to reinstall ITunes. Is that truly necessary?

Upon start up of my laptop I get a APS Daemon.exe system error - MSVCR80.dll is missing. This just started out of the blue. At one point it told me to reinstall ITunes. Is that truly necessary?

I have the same issue after installing the new update and reinstalling iTunes doesn't fix the issue.
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I'm using a PC so you can disable it using the msconfig command and turning it off in the Startup tab. I don't know if Mac users are experiencing the same issue. Hopefully Apple will fix it in their next update.

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

Hi all,
My laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad T430u, suspends whenever I close the lid. It's been doing this since I first installed Arch. I want to turn this feature off. How can I do it?
Relevant information:
acpid is installed
the configuration file /etc/acpi/handler.sh
#!/bin/bash
# Default acpi script that takes an entry for all actions
case "$1" in
button/power)
case "$2" in
PBTN|PWRF)
logger 'PowerButton pressed'
logger "ACPI action undefined: $2"
esac
button/sleep)
case "$2" in
SLPB|SBTN)
logger 'SleepButton pressed'
logger "ACPI action undefined: $2"
esac
ac_adapter)
case "$2" in
AC|ACAD|ADP0)
case "$4" in
00000000)
logger 'AC unpluged'
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)
case "$3" in
close)
logger 'LID closed'
open)
logger 'LID opened'
logger "ACPI action undefined: $3"
esac
case $(cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/state | awk '{print $2}') in
closed) XAUTHORITY=$(ps -C xinit -f --no-header | sed -n 's/.*-auth //; s/ -[^ ].*//; p') xset -display :0 dpms force off ;;
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"
esac
# vim:set ts=4 sw=4 ft=sh et:
dmesg output:
[ 1530.790532] PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
[ 1530.805678] PM: Preparing system for mem sleep
[ 1530.844445] Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.01 seconds) done.
[ 1530.856658] Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.10 seconds) done.
[ 1530.963435] PM: Entering mem sleep
[ 1530.963572] Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
[ 1531.123543] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: iwl_pcie_cmdq_reclaim: Read index for DMA queue txq id (9), index 207 is out of range [0-256] 208 208.
[ 1531.124216] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[ 1531.124579] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk
[ 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
[ 1531.754015] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: System wakeup enabled by ACPI
[ 1531.767422] PM: noirq suspend of devices complete after 79.565 msecs
[ 1531.768301] ACPI: Preparing to enter system sleep state S3
[ 1531.797647] PM: Saving platform NVS memory
[ 1531.799282] Disabling non-boot CPUs ...
[ 1531.900721] smpboot: CPU 1 is now offline
[ 1532.004162] smpboot: CPU 2 is now offline
[ 1532.107554] smpboot: CPU 3 is now offline
I have pmutils and tlpinstalled
tlp config
# tlp - Parameters for power save
# Hint: some features are disabled by default, remove the leading # to enable them
# Set to 0 to disable/1 to enable TLP
TLP_ENABLE=1
# Seconds laptop mode has to to wait after the disk goes idle before doing a sync.
# Non-zero value enables, zero disables laptop mode.
DISK_IDLE_SECS_ON_AC=0
DISK_IDLE_SECS_ON_BAT=2
# Dirty page values (timeouts in secs).
MAX_LOST_WORK_SECS_ON_AC=15
MAX_LOST_WORK_SECS_ON_BAT=60
# Select a cpu frequency scaling governor: ondemand/powersave/performance/conservative
# Important:
# - You *must* disable your distribution's governor settings or conflicts will occur
# - ondemand is sufficient for *almost all* workloads, you should know what you're doing!
#CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_AC=ondemand
#CPU_SCALING_GOVERNOR_ON_BAT=ondemand
# Set the min/max frequency available for the scaling governor.
# 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.
#CPU_SCALING_MIN_FREQ_ON_AC=0
#CPU_SCALING_MAX_FREQ_ON_AC=0
#CPU_SCALING_MIN_FREQ_ON_BAT=0
#CPU_SCALING_MAX_FREQ_ON_BAT=0
# Set the cpu "turbo boost" feature: 0=disable / 1=allow
# Requires an Intel Core i processor and kernel 3.7 or later.
# Important:
# - This may conflict with your distribution's governor settings
# - A value of 1 does *not* activate boosting, it just allows it
#CPU_BOOST_ON_AC=1
#CPU_BOOST_ON_BAT=0
# Minimize number of used cpu cores/hyper-threads under light load conditions
SCHED_POWERSAVE_ON_AC=0
SCHED_POWERSAVE_ON_BAT=1
# Kernel NMI Watchdog
# 0=disable (default, saves power) / 1=enable (for kernel debugging only)
NMI_WATCHDOG=0
# Change CPU voltages aka "undervolting" - Kernel with PHC patch required
# Freq:voltage pairs are written to /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/phc_controls
# CAUTION: only use this, if you thoroughly understand what you are doing!
#PHC_CONTROLS="F:V F:V F:V F:V"
# Hard disk devices, separate multiple devices with spaces (default: sda).
# Devices can be specified by disk id too (lookup with: tlp diskid).
DISK_DEVICES="sda sdb"
# Hard disk advanced power management level: 1(max saving)..254(off)
# Levels 1..127 may spin down the disk.
# Separate values for multiple devices with spaces.
DISK_APM_LEVEL_ON_AC="254 254"
DISK_APM_LEVEL_ON_BAT="128 128"
# Hard disk spin down timeout:
# 0: spin down disabled
# 1..240: timeouts from 5s to 20min (in units of 5s)
# 241..251: timeouts from 30min to 5.5 hours (in units of 30min)
# (see 'man hdparm' for details)
#DISK_SPINDOWN_TIMEOUT_ON_AC="0 0"
#DISK_SPINDOWN_TIMEOUT_ON_BAT="0 0"
# Select io scheduler for the disk devices: noop/deadline/cfq (Default: cfq)
# Separate values for multiple devices with spaces.
#DISK_IOSCHED="cfq cfq"
# SATA aggressive link power management (ALPM):
# min_power/medium_power/max_performance
SATA_LINKPWR_ON_AC=max_performance
SATA_LINKPWR_ON_BAT=min_power
# PCI Express Active State Power Management (PCIe ASPM):
# default/performance/powersave
# Hint: needs kernel boot option pcie_aspm=force on some machines
PCIE_ASPM_ON_AC=performance
PCIE_ASPM_ON_BAT=powersave
# Radeon graphics clock speed (profile method): low/mid/high/auto/default
# auto = mid on BAT, high on AC; default = use hardware defaults
# (Kernel >= 2.6.35 only, not with fglrx driver!)
RADEON_POWER_PROFILE_ON_AC=high
RADEON_POWER_PROFILE_ON_BAT=low
# WiFi power saving mode: 1=disable/5=enable
# (Linux 2.6.32 and later, some adapters only!)
WIFI_PWR_ON_AC=1
WIFI_PWR_ON_BAT=5
# Disable wake on lan: Y/N
WOL_DISABLE=Y
# Enable audio power saving for Intel HDA, AC97 devices (timeout in secs).
# A value of 0 disables / >=1 enables power save.
SOUND_POWER_SAVE=1
# Disable controller too (HDA only): Y/N
SOUND_POWER_SAVE_CONTROLLER=Y
# Set to 1 to power off optical drive in UltraBay (ThinkPads only)
# when running on battery. A value of 0 disables this Feature (Default).
# Drive can be powered on again by releasing (and reinserting) the
# eject lever or by pressing the disc eject button on newer models.
# Note: an UltraBay hard disk is never powered off.
BAY_POWEROFF_ON_BAT=0
# Optical drive device to power off (default sr0)
BAY_DEVICE="sr0"
# Runtime Power Management for pci(e) bus devices
# (Kernel >= 2.6.35 only): on=disable/auto=enable
RUNTIME_PM_ON_AC=on
RUNTIME_PM_ON_BAT=auto
# Runtime PM for *all* pci(e) bus devices: 0=disable / 1=enable
# Warning: experimental option, could cause system instabilities
RUNTIME_PM_ALL=0
# Set to 0 to disable/1 to enable usb autosuspend feature
USB_AUTOSUSPEND=1
# Devices from the following list are excluded from usb autosuspend
# (separate with spaces). Use lsusb to get the id's.
# Note: input devices (usbhid) are excluded automatically
#USB_BLACKLIST="1111:2222 3333:4444"
# Set to 1 to disable autosuspend before shutdown/0 to do nothing
# (workaround for usb devices that cause shutdown problems)
#USB_AUTOSUSPEND_DISABLE_ON_SHUTDOWN=1
# Restore radio device state (bluetooth, wifi, wwan) from previous shutdown
# on system startup: 0=disable/1=enable
# Hint: the parameters DEVICES_TO_DISABLE/ENABLE_ON_STARTUP/SHUTDOWN below
# are ignored when this is enabled!
RESTORE_DEVICE_STATE_ON_STARTUP=0
# Radio devices to disable on startup: bluetooth wifi wwan
#DEVICES_TO_DISABLE_ON_STARTUP="bluetooth wifi wwan"
# Radio devices to enable on startup: bluetooth wifi wwan
#DEVICES_TO_ENABLE_ON_STARTUP="wifi"
# Radio devices to disable on shutdown: bluetooth wifi wwan
# (workaround for devices that are blocking shutdown)
#DEVICES_TO_DISABLE_ON_SHUTDOWN="bluetooth wifi wwan"
# Radio devices to enable on shutdown: bluetooth wifi wwan
# (to prevent other operating systems from missing radios)
#DEVICES_TO_ENABLE_ON_SHUTDOWN="wwan"
# Radio devices to enable when wireless radio switch is turned on:
# bluetooth wifi wwan (Ubuntu + ThinkPad only)
#DEVICES_TO_ENABLE_ON_RADIOSW="wifi wwan"
# Battery charge thresholds (ThinkPad only, tp-smapi or acpi-call kernel module required)
# Charging starts when the remaining capacity falls below the START_CHARGE_TRESH
# value and stops when exceeding the STOP_CHARGE_TRESH value.
# Main battery (values in %)
#START_CHARGE_THRESH_BAT0=75
#STOP_CHARGE_THRESH_BAT0=80
# Ultrabay or slice battery (values in %)
#START_CHARGE_THRESH_BAT1=75
#STOP_CHARGE_THRESH_BAT1=80
# Set to 1 to disable use of tpacpi-bat on Sandy Bridge or newer Thinkpads
# and force usage of tp-smapi instead
#DISABLE_TPACPIBAT=1
# tlp-rdw - Parameters for the radio device wizard
# Possible devices: bluetooth/wifi/wwan
# Hint: parameters are disabled by default, remove the leading # to enable them
# Radio devices to disable on connect
DEVICES_TO_DISABLE_ON_LAN_CONNECT="wifi wwan"
DEVICES_TO_DISABLE_ON_WIFI_CONNECT="wwan"
DEVICES_TO_DISABLE_ON_WWAN_CONNECT="wifi"
# Radio devices to enable on disconnect
DEVICES_TO_ENABLE_ON_LAN_DISCONNECT="wifi wwan"
#DEVICES_TO_ENABLE_ON_WIFI_DISCONNECT=""
#DEVICES_TO_ENABLE_ON_WWAN_DISCONNECT=""
# Radio devices to enable/disable when docked
#DEVICES_TO_ENABLE_ON_DOCK=""
#DEVICES_TO_DISABLE_ON_DOCK=""
# Radio devices to enable/disable when undocked
#DEVICES_TO_ENABLE_ON_UNDOCK="wifi"
#DEVICES_TO_DISABLE_ON_UNDOCK=""
thanks guys
I love arch
Last edited by beitme (2013-06-08 10:05:37)

@ Karol, done
@ 65kid, here's my logind.conf
[Login]
#NAutoVTs=6
#ReserveVT=6
#KillUserProcesses=no
#KillOnlyUsers=
#KillExcludeUsers=root
#Controllers=
#ResetControllers=cpu
#InhibitDelayMaxSec=5
#HandlePowerKey=poweroff
#HandleSuspendKey=suspend
#HandleHibernateKey=hibernate
#HandleLidSwitch=ignore
#PowerKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#SuspendKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#HibernateKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=yes
#IdleAction=ignore
#IdleActionSec=30min

Kernel 2.6.32.2-2 black screen after closing laptop lid (intel + KMS)

Today I updated my laptop with the new 2.6.32.2-2 kernel from core. Previous update of my system was just a few days back, so there are no massive changes to other packages and I also don't use testing packages.
Since the update, after closing the laptop lid (which just blanks my screen) and I want to continue working I just have a black screen (no backlight) and the screen won't respond to mouse or keyboard input. I have to reboot (ctr-alt-del or pushing my power button) or switch to VT1 and back to VT7 to get my screen back. I'm absolutely positive that this was not a problem before, it worked fine with 2.6.30 and 2.6.31 kernels with my same configuration.
HP 6730b laptop
Intel GMA 4500 (Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07))
Intel driver 2.9.1-1 using KMS with early start (modprobe.conf) and I rebuilt my initcpio to the new 2.6.32.2-2 kernel
Gnome 2.28.2
Can anyone confirm this behaviour? Should I file a bug somewhere? I read about lots of upgrade problems with this new kernel, but for the rest everything else works fine so far.
Thanks for your feedback.
Ulukai

moose jaw wrote:
ulukai wrote:@ Moose Jaw: I also looked into pm-suspend, but i guess it is only usefull for suspending and resuming sessions (something I never do)? Is there a command you know for simulating closing the lid and reopening it again?
Isn't suspending and resuming a session exactly what you're doing (or hoping to do) when you close your lid and then open it up again? I.e., putting the machine into a low-power sleep state and then having everything come back to where you were when you wake it up? You mentioned that the Gnome power management tools depend on pm-utils, which suggests that somewhere in there "pm-suspend" is getting called. If you can find out where it's getting called (i.e., in some script that Gnome power manager uses), and try changing it to "pm-suspend --quirk-vbestate-restore" (or one of the other quirks, perhaps), then that may bring your screen back on wakeup.
Hehe, nope I don't hope to suspend :-) I just close the lid to save the display (and some power) but want my machine to keep running (when downloading torrents or when I'm going to eat etc...) Also it keeps the dust from entering the keyboard ;-)
I also took a look at the post where there should be a patch present, but I think it's for another problem: flickering screens.
For me it's a bug in intel driver or kernel, but still it's strange that KDE doesn't suffer from this!

Auto Starting E530c and E545 laptops

I have been trying for ages to get both of these models to auto start for updating purproses. These machines are stored in a cart so no matter what route I took, I enabled them to stay on even when the lid was closed. This cart is wired with network and power to each laptop as well. The routes I have taken:
1. Wake on Lan. At best this works 20% of the time. I set each laptop up, test it and then put it back into the cart. Once the cart is full, I do a full WoL test and every single unit turns on. I leave for the night and let the scheduled task try to turn the laptops on overnight... most don't. I have been pulling my hair out, changing settings all over the place but it always works in limited tests but then never works in mass.
So I looked into other options:
2. RTC Alarm (aka: Auto power on at a certain time in bios)... but this setting is not in the bios. At least, I can't find it. If it is there, please let me know. There is a good chance I am blind!
3. I would even take just auto turn on when AC power is plugged in. Again though, I can't find any option in the bios for either unit.
So... is there some secret setting to making WoL work all the time? Is there a RTC alarm setting in bios? Is there an auto turn on when AC power in bios? Any of those solutions would work for me!
Thanks!

I was wondering if was something to do with VLANs being mucked up, since I only use 4 (it tells me I can't use more than four if I try to use more), plus it used to all work until a power interuption.. hah!
would removing vlan.dat then a reload force the router to re-write without any suspected problems ?
I've just pulled off all the encryption, and vlan3 works, but simple wep back on... and the client can't see the dhcp-offer going back....

Can't start CS2 on Vista laptop ... HELP!

Hello, and thanks in advance for any help.
I just installed CS2 on my HP laptop with Vista and, seemingly, everything installed correctly. When I start CS2, it loads as it should. After it completes loading, I instantly get the message:
"Adobe Photoshop CS2 has stopped working."
"A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available."
Of course none is ever available.
Then when I click OK, it closes the program and I get this message:
"To help protect your computer, Data Execution Prevention has closed Adobe Photoshop CS2. Click to learn more."
I tried to uninstall the software, but I get a similar message about "Windows Installer has stopped working ..." But it only does this for Photoshop. Anything else I can install/uninstall with no issues.
Here are the steps I have taken to remedy:
1) Restart
2) Uninstall (of course didn't work)
3) System Restore
4) Reinstall after system restore
5) Delete preferences (using shift/alt/ctrl) when Photoshop starts.
6) Turn off DEP for Photoshop
7) Turn off DEP for ALL Adobe executables
8) Another system restore
9) Reinstall to C:\progra~2\Adobe
10) Pulled some hair out
Any suggestions? Questions? I have to get this running by Friday. Even if it means buying new software or hardware.

Sounds to me like it is in fact suffering from some locked registry entries getting in the way. With regards to the uninstall that can be solved easily by using the Microsoft Installer Cleanup Utility and having it remove the repsective entries for Photoshop and otehr Adobe products (may require to use the tool a couple of times). For everything else, tools like Sysinternals' Process Monitor may offer some insights by tracking which files and registry keys PS is trying to access that may cause the crash and flase alarm. I also recomemnd you check your settings for your user temporary folders. It is not beyond reason to assume that your temp directory is being monitored by some tool and when PS attempts to place its swap files there, it crashes because it is prevented from doing so....
Mylenium

Time machine disk failure after closing laptop lid

I have a Seagate 1.5 TB disk that I'm using for a time machine backup (USB). For a long time, I had the disk formatted wrong and had this problem, but I re-formatted it (per Apple's instructions) and have been trying again. Now, with it correctly formatted, I still have the same problem.
This is a laptop, so I don't leave the Time Machine application on, nor do I leave the TM disk connected all the time. If I plug in the drive, run TM, and eject the disk before closing the laptop lid, I do not have any issues. If, however, the laptop lid is shut at any point after TM completes, I have can never seem to eject nor unmount the TM disk. For example, last night I ran TM and left the machine open overnight. In the morning, the machine was used and shut per usual routine, except the drive was still connected. Now there is a critical failure on the drive (Disk Utility can do nothing to repair the drive and suggests re-formatting). Last night, the computer was plugged in and went to sleep after 15 minutes. I have changed no settings regarding what the computer does on lid shutdown.
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.

Xorg not functional after closing laptop lid.

Hi all!
Recently I've bought a monitor and I wanted to use my laptop more like a pc. But when I close the lid my both my screens go black. I'd like to use my computer with the lid closed normally.
Also, when I open the lid back I still have black screen only, both on laptop and monitor.
When I go to other terminal (ctrl+alt+F1..6) everything is fine on both screens. When I press alt+f7 and go back I have a black screen again.
I've looked at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acpid and then looked at /etc/acpi/handler.sh, but it seems that I have no action assigned at lid closure so it should do nothing.
Here is the mentioned file:
#!/bin/sh
# Default acpi script that takes an entry for all actions
minspeed=`cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq`
maxspeed=`cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq`
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button/power)
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*) logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
esac
button/sleep)
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ac_adapter)
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AC|ACAD|ADP0)
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00000000)
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00000001)
echo -n $maxspeed >$setspeed
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esac
*) logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
esac
battery)
case "$2" in
BAT0)
case "$4" in
00000000) echo "offline" >/dev/tty5
00000001) echo "online" >/dev/tty5
esac
CPU0)
*) logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
esac
button/lid)
case "$3" in
close)
echo "LID closed!">/dev/tty5
open)
echo "LID opened!">/dev/tty5
esac
logger "ACPI group/action undefined: $1 / $2"
esac
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cheers,
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