[arch-general] sleep + lid events + kde => new problem

[hector acosta]

I can confirm this, I started seeing this behavior about 2 months ago.
But in my case, it sometimes work, and sometimes doesn't whereas it
used to work flawlessly before.

--Héctor Acosta


On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:13 AM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Genes MailLists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Using fully updated testing repo - starting 'recently' - I notice that lid
>> close no longer sleeps my laptop.
>>
>>  Kde power is configured to sleep on lid close. If i click the menu and
>> choose sleep manually - it sleeps fine - and subsequently wakes fine on
>> lid-open.
>>
>>  I can confirm with this little shell loop (left running and then close lid
>> and reopen) that acpi shows lid is indeed closed:
>>
>> while [[ 1 == 1 ]]
>>> do
>>> cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/*/state
>>> sleep 1
>>> done
>> state:      open
>> state:      open
>> state:      open
>> state:      open
>> state:      closed
>> state:      closed
>> state:      closed
>> state:      closed
>> state:      open
>> state:      open
>>
>>
>>  So, it -seems- as if lid-event is not being passed along for some reason to
>> the (kde) power management - or not being listened to.
>>
>>  I have not yet switched to systemd - and I'm not sure which process is
>> responsible for such events.
>>
>>  It still happens with 3.5.4 kernel if that makes any difference.
>>
>>  It is a W520 lenovo laptop.
>>
>>  Anyone else notice similar - or can offer suggestions?
>>
>>  Thanks.
>
> Does running acpi_listen and closing then reopening the lid gives an
> indication that the lid open/close is being seen - just to check if
> there is any switch failure?
>
>
> --
> mike c