unix laptop question: closing the lid

Wed Jan 29 15:12:48 PST 2003

Hi folks,

Can anyone point me to an easy way to have BSD or Linux running on
a laptop and *not* go to sleep or hibernate when the lid is closed?

Here in our motorhome, space is at a premium, and cats roam all
horizontal surfaces.  Thus re-using my old laptop as a server requires
that the lid be kept closed.  Sure, I could break off the plastic
flanges that activate the "lid is closed" microswitch, but I would
really rather not trash the laptop.  Of course, if the screen is on
all the time with the lid closed, that generates quite a bit of
heat from the backlighting, so I need a way to lie to APM and have
it turn off the screen for me, too.

The laptop in question is a Thinkpad 770.  I haven't decided for 
sure if I am going to run NetBSD or RedHat on it.  I'll be 
administering it via the local LAN.

thanks much,
Strata

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