[CentOS] How to get status of notebook lid?

[Olaf Mueller]

Ralph Angenendt wrote:

Hello,

> Olaf Mueller wrote:
>> ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
>> Is this also blacklisted under CentOS 4,  or better, would CentOS 4
>> be a solution for my problem?
> You can try with the live CD. But I'd think that it also is disabled
> there.
thank you very much for your help. Now I have tried the CentOS 4.4
LiveCD with the following result.

# cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state
state:  open

I am happy, it works!
But this also means that CentOS 4 must be installed on my already
installed CentOS 5 notebook. I suppose to use a CentOS 4 kernel under
CentOS 5 is not recommendable?


regards
Olaf