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

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:01:25PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ok. Do you know if there are other (better working) methods to get the lid state info? 

-- Pasi