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

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Jul 13 17:47:03 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 11:35 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 16:57 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> > Maybe it it is an idea to build a whitelist for machines which do
> > have working ACPI lid support? I realize maintaining such a list is
> > a pain, but this way people who care and are lucky enough to have actually
> > working hardware can at least use this ?
> 
> It's an idea, but not one I'd do.  Either a whitelist or a blacklist
> would be oppressively large.

I suppose a whitelist has the advantage that it can't hurt anything
compared to the current state, and no matter how short it is, it
benefits *some* people.
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Adam Williamson
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