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[Thomas M. Albright]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Bill McGonigle wrote:

> On Jan 12, 2005, at 18:23, Thomas M. Albright wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that when I
> > shut the lid on the laptop, it goes to sleep and I can't connect to the
> > internet. How do I get it to stay awake when I shut the lid?
> 
> Some laptops overheat if they run with the lid closed - others have it 
> as a feature.  Just be aware if you need to do sufficient hackery to 
> get it to work there might be a reason...
> 
Well, it was working wit the lid closed just fine up until Manchester 
had a black out on 24 December. When I came back on the 27th and powered 
it back on it would no long stay awake with the lid closed.

I run apt-get dist-upgrade on it every night, so I'm guessing apm got 
changed.

Why the make and model of the laptop or the distribution matters is 
unclear to me, but it's a Acer Extensa 368D running RedHat 6.2 with a 
2.2.24-6.2.3 kernel on an i586

I just want to know if/what apm settings need changing.

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