[arch-general] intel video & suspend

[Ray Rashif]

On 18 June 2010 15:36, Christoph Rissner <c.r at visotech.at> wrote:
> On 05/07/2010 07:16 PM, Isaac Dupree wrote:
>>
>> please inform us, what does "xset dpms force off" do?  And for what
>> circumstances/purpose do you use it?
>
> Sorry it took so long, I missed your reply.
>
> "xset dpms force off" is supposed to turn off the screen immediately using
> DPMS, at least thats what it seems to do.
> I just don't want to suspend (suspend the whole system to RAM) everytime I
> close the lid, rather I like it to continue to work on whatever I told it to
> do :-)

That _is_ the default behaviour - the laptop should do nothing at all
when the lid is closed. I know of no particular hardware/BIOS that
sets a sleep action upon lid closure. It is only altered by userspace
tools/daemons like for eg. when using a DE. You might want to check
what else is enforcing a rule to the lid-closing state.


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