[ltp] APMD and Standby on the TP-T21

[Markus Alt]

"D. Sen" wrote:
> 
> 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.

Proposal: Why not disable (in the BIOS setup menu) the suspend action
initiated when closing the lid? Then you suspend only via <Fn><F4> and
when closing the lid, only the screen goes blank, as with <Fn><F3> [1].
(You should be able to test the latter by pressing the lib button below
the power/suspend/ultra bay LEDs.)

BTW, I've set it up this way as I don't want my machine to suspend when
closing the lid. At the office, it sits in a port replicator and usually
the lid is closed and I work with an external monitor/mouse/keyboard.
But after opening the lid I can use the LCD display - and vice versa.

Markus


[1] On my T21 (SuSE 7.1, 2.2.18), I don't have the feeling that pressing
<Fn><F3> or calling "apm --standby" does anything to the hard drive. It
just blanks the screen.

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