how to tell a laptop not to sleep on lid closing?

Forum: DSL Tips and Tricks
Topic: how to tell a laptop not to sleep on lid closing?
started by: wkearney99

Posted by wkearney99 on Mar. 01 2006,21:30

Anyone know how to tell a laptop not to put itself to sleep when it's lid is closed? I've got an ancient Toshiba that I'd like to use for kismet but it keeps putting itself to sleep when the lid gets closed. What config options/settings should I look into to get it to keep itself awake even when the lid's closed?

Alternatively, of course, I can just whack out the switch it uses to detect the lid being closed!

Posted by _pathos on Mar. 02 2006,07:11

I bet that the is no way for software to interact with this feature and its just controlled by the motherboard/bios.

Get a dickie bird and put it on the control button

I don't think software would be able to generate the necessary hardware interupts to stop the suspend either.

Posted by wkearney99 on Mar. 02 2006,23:54

I found the switch. I disconnected it from the motherboard. Now it doesn't go to sleep when the lid's closed. Yay!

Posted by TruBlueEQ on Mar. 03 2006,01:08

I was going to suggest filing down the notebook-lid-closing-button-actuator-tab, but your method seems to make more sense.
Congrats!

Posted by KC on Mar. 03 2006,17:45

HARSH!

Did you check the bios to see if you could disable sleep there.
F1 or ESC +F1 during startup if I remember right.

If that doesn't help try downloanding toshset from:
< http://www.schwieters.org/toshset/ >

It is a command line tool that lets you control you Toshiba laptop. Stuff like fan and cpu speed. Lots of fun to play with. The down side is it likes DLS 2.0 (kernel 2.4.31)

Good luck

KC

Posted by tox on Mar. 03 2006,22:03

as far as i know it is a software function, because in window$ you have the ability to stop it from sleeping in power management...

Posted by jpeters on April 22 2006,02:30

Quote (_pathos @ Mar. 02 2006,02:11)

I bet that the is no way for software to interact with this feature and its just controlled by the motherboard/bios.

Get a dickie bird and put it on the control button

I don't think software would be able to generate the necessary hardware interupts to stop the suspend either.

On my Dell Inspiron 1000, it goes into sleep mode ONLY when I have the XP windows operating system booted up. When I'm running DSL, closing the lid has no effect. That would lead me to believe there is indeed a software component.