This is on my HP Pavilion dv1240us laptop. I know the events are generated correctly: # killall acpid # cat /proc/acpi/event button/lid LID0 00000080 00000001 (Press #1) button/lid LID0 00000080 00000002 (Release #1) button/lid LID0 00000080 00000003 (Press #2) button/lid LID0 00000080 00000004 (Release #2) # cat /proc/acpi/wakeup Device S-state Status Sysfs node PCIB S5 disabled pci:0000:00:1e.0 LAN S5 disabled pci:0000:01:00.0 PS2K S3 disabled pnp:00:05 PSM1 S3 disabled pnp:00:06 USB0 S3 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.0 USB1 S3 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.1 USB2 S3 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.2 USB7 S3 disabled pci:0000:00:1d.7 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html