[ltp] APMD and Standby on the TP-T21

[D. Sen]

Thats a neat way to suspend the machine. I use 'apm -s' in similar ways.
However,
its still not a solution to when you *dont* want to suspend the
machine......but
just want to shut the lid.




Michael Selway wrote:

>    I dont particularly want to use standby (Fn+F3).......BUT when I close the
>    laptop lid, with a pcmcia card in it, it defaults to the standby mode (instead
>    of suspend which is what happens when there are no pcmcia cards in the slots).
>    So....I can't close the laptop lid.....without ejecting my network
>    cards....which gets to be a hassle.
>
> I have this problem too (though not the lost interrupt problem).
> My solution is to map Shift+F4 in my window manager to run "apm
> --suspend".  This suspends the machine even with pcmcia network
> cards in.
>
> Michael.

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