On Thursday 28 January 2010, Robin wrote: > The lid/suspend event works on my Toshiba Satellite A205-S4607 50% of > the time. I think it is possible it is an ACPI driver clitch. > > After doing a little research I found out that the current lid state > is stored at: > /proc/acpi/button/lid/*/state. > > So I ran some simple tests: > > 1) After a fresh boot: > cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/*/state gives me: > State: open > > 2) Close (successful suspend) and Reopen the lid: > cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/*/state gives me: > State: closed > > 3) Close the lid (failure to suspend the laptop) and reopen > cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/*/state gives me: > State: open > > 4) Close (successful suspend) and Reopen the lid: > cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/*/state gives me: > State: closed > > I repeated this several times to make sure the pattern is consistent. > > Any thoughts? It's better to ask on the linux-acpi list (CC added). Rafael -- 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