Waking up after closing display (lid)

The problem I am having with my waking PB only happens when I close the display. If I use the sleep command in the menu and don't close the display all the way, my PB stays asleep. If I close the lid all the way, it will eventually wake up and stay awake. I then push a little harder on the lid and it will go back to sleep. Only to wake up again, eventually.
Needless to say this is starting to get on my nerves a little.
It sounds like a hardware problem, because it only happens when the display is all the way closed.
Can anyone help my insomniac mac ?
15 PB G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Hi idanno67,
This may be a hardware issue with the latch. If you care to troubleshoot this a little on your own you can also try the following. Delete these .plist files: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist and /Users/yourusername/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist and /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.AutoWake.plist. Restart your PB and it will generate new plists to replace the ones you deleted.
Jrsy

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MacBook Pro Not Sleeping After Closing Display Lid

Hello, my less-than-1-month old MacBook Pro, for it's first time, did not to go to sleep after I closed the display lid (I noticed because my external mouse's LED indicator lights were still on, when they have always turned off when my Mac goes to sleep.
I left the Mac in this state for one hour or so. When I got back to use it, I noticed it was still running and the display had gotten a bit warmer. Does the heat damage the LCD display at all?
Has anyone else with a MacBook Pro experienced a similar occurrence?
Thanks a lot for your answers!

Try this:
1. Reset PRAM/NVRAM and SMC
2. Delete
a. (From the HD) /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist
b. (From the HD) /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.AutoWake.plist
c. (From the Home Folder) ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
the tilde [~] indicates your home user directory, i.e. /Users/username)
d. Restarted computer
With the lid closed should not harm the computer.....when operating in clamshell mode this would be considered normal (heat buildup).

Equium A60-692 won't restart after closing the lid

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Wireless mouse and Keyboard Issue after closing the lid - external display

Can anyone give any insight. Recent purchase of a new Late 2008 15" MBP. I have connected it to an external 24" Apple monitor on my desk and use a wireless mouse and wireless keyboard on my desk top. I have configured the laptop to wake on bluetooth devices. So here is the problem: The laptop when the lid is up recognizes the bluetooth keyboard and mouse. I close the lid/screen. Laptop powers down... the after several seconds I move the mouse and the laptop comes alive... But after that there are no bluetooth devices attached. When I use the mouse, I get "connection lost" with a white figure of the mighty mouse on the screen. The wireless keyboard is not there and I have to open the lid and manually find the mouse and reconnect. The keyboard seems to work however....
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Hi Stentdoc; I'm thinking, 'connection lost ~= sorta low AA batteries in the Mighty Mouse? (I would put in fresh AA batteries in the mouse and keyboard, to eliminate as an issue that the 'connection lost' is due to low batt voltage; that this is causing the failure to wake.) ... then, in System Preferences > Hardware > Energy Saver, settings for Power Adapter > Sleep, set to "never" for "Put the computer to sleep when it is inactive for ..." to eliminate that as a conflict when trying to wake with bluetooth from sleep induced by closing the lid ...
Check your current "Sleep" setup (I left my MBP as "3")
go to Utilities > Terminal
After you launch Terminal, the first step is to determine which sleep mode your Mac is currently using. You can both view and change the sleep mode using the Unix program pmset. To see your current settings, type (or, copy and paste)
pmset -g | grep hibernatemode
press 'enter'
You should see something like this:
$ pmset -g | grep hibernatemode
hibernatemode 3
So your machine is using mode 3 ... thanks to the documentation for the handy Deep Sleep Dashboard widget, which puts your machine immediately into hibernation mode (so you don’t have to yank all the power sources to invoke it):
* 0 - Old style sleep mode, with RAM powered on while sleeping, safe sleep disabled, and super-fast wake.
* 1 - Hibernation mode, with RAM contents written to disk, system totally shut down while “sleeping,” and slower wake up, due to reading the contents of RAM off the hard drive.
* 3 - The default mode on machines introduced since about fall 2005. RAM is powered on while sleeping, but RAM contents are also written to disk before sleeping. In the event of total power loss, the system enters hibernation mode automatically.
also, I enabled this (to change back, input "lidwake 1":
go to Utilities > Terminal
type in sudo pmset lidwake 0 then "enter"
it will ask for your password. type it in, that's it!
Now, when your computer is sleeping with the lid closed, when you open the lid nothing happens until you press any key ... nice: keeps it off when accidentally opened, like in a backpack?
WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.
To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

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!

I don't think my MBP slept after closing the lid - it was hot when I woke up

I just came back from an overseas trip and hooked my late 2013 13" MBP retina back up to the LG external monitor. When I went to bed I closed the lid. What I expected to happen was for it to stay awake for a certain number of minutes. Then the external monitor display would go black indicating it was asleep. But because an external monitor is connected it would wake up as needed for Carbon Copy Cloner at 3:30 am. But then go back to sleep.
However my MBP seemed too warm when I just came downstairs. The body and lit were noticeably warm.
Shouldn't it eventually sleep and not be fully awake in clamshell mode in this situation?
Thanks,
Doug

And another Apple Care chat session. But I still can't figure out exactly what's going on, and we seem to be going in circles.
Hello, Doug! How are you doing today?
OK. And you?
I’m doing really well, thanks for asking! How can I help you today?
Well, I tried talking about this via chat support earlier, but was getting wrong information, so I thought I would try again and take a different approach to how I ask .
I’m currently reading through the chat transcript to get a strong understanding of what you were going through.
If you read over the chat you can see we digressed into a separate question about whether the "turn hard drive when possible" mattered to the internal SSD and he said it did and pointed me to a support page which said it did NOT and then he said, "there you have it! have all your questions been answered" but none were so I gave up.
Anyway...
Basically it's just this. My MBP is connected to an external display. In the energy settings I have my MBP set to not sleep when the display sleeps so I don't lose some Terminal SSH connections when I'm working.
But when I'm going to sleep I thought I would let it power nap and cool down.
But I've noticed the MBP is warm in the morning. Also I noticed that open SSH sessions were not broken. So I think my MBP is not going to sleep.
Perhaps the computer thinks it’s going into Clamshell mode since it’s connected to an external display via HDMI, correct?
I did read in help that if you hold the power button down 1.5 seconds an option dialog will appear and from there I can select sleep. I did that, but this morning it is still warm and the connections were not broken.
Let me look into this, I want to do everything I can to make sure you’re getting your questions answered this time.
Yes, I believe you are correct. That it is just going into clamshell mode, and even though I manually selected sleep from the power button option it is ignoring that.
It seems to immediately sleep though. Instead of timing out, the external display goes black, reports a loss of signal and then goes into its own power save mode. So it appears to go to sleep.Yet it is warm in the morning, and the open Terminal sessions, which I would normally expect to break, are not broken.
Okay, so there’s still network communication going on, and you’re used to that terminating.
It shouldn’t be possible, but that could be what’s going on here. This is an interesting one, and I can see how you’d expect your Mac to be a little cooler to the touch if it’s supposed to be sleeping.
Okay, so there’s still network communication going on, and you’re used to that terminating.
Let me check our resources on this. It may be a great opportunity to speak to a senior advisor as well.
I just came back from a trip and during the trip there was no external monitor and I didn't experience this, even though the energy settings are the same.
The network is my home wifi. On my trip, it was my friend's home wifi.
So the external display is really the big variable here I think.
Probably so.
I could just power off the external display before I close the lid as my next test before I go to sleep next time. But I sort of wanted to know what was happening. Especially since I intentionally manually selected sleep.
I’d like to check with a senior advisor if that’s okay with you.
Yes, please do check.
Also - another thing.
I notice my keypad and hand rest - the whole top surface - has become noticeably COOLER since we began our chat. So I'm wondering if there is stuff in the display/lid itself which might be causing the warm temperature, rather than the body (which is what I would have expected with the display off). Or it is just able to "cool better" with the lid open?
That’s another interesting observation. I think either way, the concern still remains whether or not the computer is actually going to sleep. The display of all things should not be producing excessive warmth.
Do you hear any fan noise when you wake your Mac?
Or right beforehand?
Yes, you are correct about the main concern. I thought maybe there was something in the logs I might be able to check to see if it actually was asleep or not.
I have never heard any fan noice from the MBP.
Okay. I just wanted to make sure. My hands-on experience with a new Retina display is limited, I’m not sure what the fan actually sounds like compared to my traditional MacBook Pro. I’ll go ahead and consult with my senior advisor since our troubleshooting steps would indefinitely cause us to get disconnected.
Thanks for your patience as check on this!
I just found this terminal command to check on the last sleep time:
pmset -g log | grep sleep | tail -n 1
It does report that it went to sleep at 2:42 am which sounds right:
8/2/14, 2:42:25 AM GMT+9 com.apple.sleepservices.sessionTerminatedSleepService: window has terminated.
Unless that means sleep ENDED at that time.
Interesting. I’m glad you found that. It’s a little beyond the level at which I know OS X, But I’ll have some answers soon enough.
OK. Take your time.
Thanks, Doug.
I believe I found more information, though it still doesn't explain why the SSH connection didn't break.
This command:
pmset -g log|grep -e " Sleep " -e " Wake "
will report all the sleep/awake occurrences.
For the last few days it reports:
7/30/14, 11:16:09 AM GMT Wake Wake from Standby [CDNVA] due to EC.LidOpen/Lid Open: Using BATT (Charge:99%)66 secs 7/30/14, 11:17:15 AM GMT Sleep Clamshell Sleep: Using BATT (Charge:99%) 10830 secs 7/30/14, 2:17:45 PM GMT+ Sleep Maintenance Sleep: Using BATT (Charge:97%) 11542 secs 7/30/14, 5:30:07 PM GMT+ Wake Wake from Standby [CDNVA] due to RTC/Alarm: Using BATT (Charge:96%) 41 secs 7/30/14, 5:30:48 PM GMT+ Sleep Clamshell Sleep: Using BATT (Charge:96%) 10823 secs 7/30/14, 8:31:11 PM GMT+ Sleep Maintenance Sleep: Using BATT (Charge:94%) 7/30/14, 9:29:02 PM GMT+ Wake Wake from Standby [CDNVA] due to EC.ACAttach/Lid Open: Using AC (Charge:94%) 8/2/14, 2:06:18 AM GMT+9 Sleep Software Sleep pid=78: Using AC (Charge:100%
So (if you can look at that neatly, one line at a time, it shows it was in fact going into clamshell sleep until I manually put it into sleep.
Then at 2:06 am it went into "software sleep".
Then at 2:42 a it went into something called "maintenance sleep"
at 3:30 am it was awakened by CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) and did not go to sleep again after that.
So maybe:
1. The sleep is quietly keeping the SSH connections alive and,
2. CCC is not properly putting the MBP back to sleep after doing its 3:30 am backup?
Doug, I’m going to go ahead and transfer you over to a Senior Advisor now. They will discuss this with you further. Does that sound good?
Yes, thank you.
You are now being connected to another Advisor. Please standby.
Okay, so your external display is not sleeping?
It is sleeping.
It times out in 15 minutes normally.
After I close the MBP lid.
Just like the energy settings say it should.
And when I did the forced sleep via the power button the external display immediately went black and reported loss of signal and then went into power save mode.
So I assumed it was asleep.
Okay, so, the Mac is not sleeping or the Display?
What I'm trying to find out is if the Mac is sleeping or not. The reason I was prompted to ask was because in the morning after I wake up I notice the MBP feels warm to the touch. I would expect it to feel cold if it was sleeping. Also, a terminal session with an SSH going did not get broken.
Okay, I think I understand now. You are looking for answers about the sleep status of your Mac. I understand your expectation of a cold Mac, and I am here to help.
Thanks. Did you notice my pmset command outputs near the end of my chat with the previous person?
So, In Energy Saver, there is a setting to wake for network Activity.
Yes. It is checked.
However, when not connected to the monitor (like on my previous trip) that was not enough to keep an SSH session going.
Okay, so this would explain to me why the Mac would be warm to the touch. If there is a SSH session active.
Typically those shells would break when the lid was closed.
Okay, with a Display attached, the system expects to operate in Clamshell mode when the lid is closed.
This is all expected
Which prompts two questions:
(1) Even if I force it to sleep with the power button followed by selecting "sleep" from the options and
(2) Even though the pmset output indicated it went to sleep and not into clamshell mode?
I am not familiar with the pmset
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pmset
In computing, pmset is a command line utility to manipulate power management settings under the Darwin and Mac OS X operating systems. It can assign sleep settings, schedule sleep and wake times, and display power information.
pmset indicated it went to sleep at 2:06 am. Anyway, as I reported above with the previous tech person.
Okay, pmset is not supported by AppleCare, yes it is a Terminal command, but it is there for Developer use
So... where are we left? That you think it was in clamshell mode even though I manually forced it into sleep mode and the logs indicate it went to sleep? I'm just still left not quite understanding what is happening.
I guess I'll just try a test next time with the display powered off and see what happens. I need to go now. Thank you. I will end the chat for now.
End Chat

Qosmio G20-127: Screen blackout after closing the lid on Vista

Hi,
I have Qosmio G20-127 and I've recently installed Vista Ultimate Edition (32-bit). I managed to bring everything to its place (except the magic buttons, but the drivers are not out yet), but I have a problem that is seriously making me reconsider going back to XP MCE.
When I close the lid of my computer the display naturally goes off, but when I open it up again it does not turn on, but it stays black. And I can't make it turn on again no matter what. I have to turn off the entire computer and that is quite impractical.
Funny thing is that after restart for about 20-30 minutes I can open and close the lid normally, but after a little longer work on the computer the same problem occurs.
The problem persists even after I turned off every action remotely connected to closing the lid.
Does anyone have any solution?

Hi J,
thanks for your help but my BIOS update won't install. I get the message "[Error] BIOS Update is not supported OS. Unsupported OS or service pack is installed."
About the powersaver, I didn't install additional powersaver program as I was told it would conflict with Vista's Mobility Center (FranciscoJr's Guide to installing Vista), but all the options regarding closing lid are turned off (Do nothing option).
There are two more new things I observed and might be indicative of the problem, but I don't know what to make of it.
1. When I close the lid I hear 'disconnected device sound'
2. And the screen sometimes comes back if the s-video cable (leading to my tv) is plugged out (usually it was always in coz I use Q20 as a media center as well)
Of course that made me think that it might be a problem in Graphic Card, but I've installed the most recent driver.
So now I'm pretty much clueless as what to do.

Closed display lid shuts downs MBP

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Satellite C855-1CH - cannot control brightness after closing / opening lid

hello
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Closing Display Lid while useing iTunes

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Hi, Limitless, and welcome to Apple Discussions. Your Powerbook is designed to sleep whenever its display is closed, except when used with an external display, keyboard and mouse connected to it as described in this article. You won't be able to use it the way you describe. Unlike you, it isn't limitless — ;o)

Macbook air does not sleep after closing the lid or putting into sleep

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This procedure is a diagnostic test. It makes no changes to your data.
Please triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
pmset -g assertions | pbcopy
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing the key combination command-V. I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear below what you entered.
The output of the command will be automatically copied to the Clipboard. If the command produced no output, the Clipboard will be empty. Paste into a reply to this message.
The Terminal window doesn't show the output. Please don't copy anything from there.

Windows 8 Laptop will not recover after closing the lid

I have a Compaq C60-420US.
The OS was Win7 on an OEM install which worked fine. I could close the lid of the laptop and when opened, the OS would resume normal operation.
I upgraded the OS to Win8.
Since the upgrade, when I close the PC top and then open it, I cannot get the computer to respond. The drive shows activity, the DVD sounds like it goes active for a moment but the screen remains black. If I press the on/off button it begins
flashing and when pressed again it does the same type of activity as when I open the laptop cover. I have made sure that the BIOS is up to date. I have tried disabling the CPU sleep mode in BIOS, no change. I have tried disabling hibernate
in power options, no change. I tried reverting to the Win7 video drivers from the HP website, no change. I don't know what else to try.
I have researched this problem on google search and have come up empty other than the things that I have already tried.

There are currently no drivers up on the HP website for this monitor using Win8.
So, try installing Win-7 drivers in compatibility mode.   If switchable graphics are involved see this tip
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Display-and-Video-e-g-Windows-8/I-upgraded-to-Windows-8-How-do-I-get-switchable-graphics-to/m-p/2213275
Also, I think it would be interesting to see if you could boot in VGA mode, e.g. as a workaround if you didn't have the second monitor to use.   A procedure that I have been suggesting on that tack involves this loop, assuming the lock screen is
being shown on the black screen...
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-windows_update/never-ending-cycle-after-windows-update-turns/d36579c0-8fa5-4930-ae57-bc608d26564f?msgId=2a507498-9e0b-4214-9adb-e5342dc841e3
<quote>
<loop>
Shift-Tab, Shift-Enter, wait.   If the drive light start flashing, wait even longer for it to settle down.
</loop>
</quote>
Now I'm wondering if the problem could be related to the resolution required to show your lock screen?  Is there anything special about it in that regard?   If so, maybe the target of my workaround should be the Space Needle?
(E.g. the lock screen for unknown account.)...
Oh, no.   I have made a change which invalidates my procedure and I can't figure out how to undo it.   I have done something which requires me to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete before I can use the Lock Screen. Also, in that case I'm finding
that Shift-Enter may not be appropriate any more but only a Space would be allowed (e.g. for my Plan-B, opening the Accessibility menu in order to hear Narrator's comforting words and then activate Narrator to guide the user through the darkness.)
Why is this being designed to be so unusable?
Good luck
Robert

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`
setspeed="/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed"
set $*
case "$1" in
button/power)
echo "PowerButton pressed!">/dev/tty5
case "$2" in
PBTN|PWRF) logger "PowerButton pressed: $2" ;;
*) logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
esac
button/sleep)
case "$2" in
SLPB) echo -n mem >/sys/power/state ;;
*) logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
esac
ac_adapter)
case "$2" in
AC|ACAD|ADP0)
case "$4" in
00000000)
echo -n $minspeed >$setspeed
#/etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode start
00000001)
echo -n $maxspeed >$setspeed
#/etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode stop
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
As you can see on the bottom I do not have anything assigned to lid action.
Any thoughts?
cheers,
kajman

I'm using xfce4.
Here's my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
Option "BlankTime" "0"
Option "StandbyTime" "0"
Option "SuspendTime" "0"
Option "OffTime" "0"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "radeon" #Choose the driver used for this monitor
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0" #Collapse Monitor and Device section to Screen section
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24 #Choose the depth (16||24)
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1366x768_60.00" #Choose the resolution
Virtual 1920 1080
EndSubSection
EndSection
But i think that this configuration may be irrevelant.
When I connect my external monitor I always type
xrandr --auto
When unplugging the monitor I also type the same command.
Also I have turned my laptop's screen off (using settings/screen I've unchecked "use this output").
Last edited by kajman (2012-02-15 17:42:43)

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