Poll: Does ACPI lid state work on your Linux laptop?

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:44:59PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:

> I guess that should cover all the usecases..
> Please post your findings to this list.

Please don't. ACPI lid state is not reliable on a range of hardware for 
a bunch of reasons, ranging from open events that are never fired to 
query methods that read from the wrong register. We can't pay attention 
to it by default, and running a survey doesn't change that.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org