Olaf Mueller wrote: > Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > > Hello, > > > On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 08:54 +0200, Olaf Mueller wrote: > >> Is there any way to get this status, maybe under /proc/ or by some > >> command? > > Look under /proc/acpi/button/lid/. On one of my notebooks, this > > works: > /proc/acpi doesn't here exists, acpid is installed. Is my notebook too > old? That is entirely possible, yes. The 8000 is from ~1999? Might be that the acpi bios is blacklisted. Searching for acpi in dmesg should give more hints. > Any other ideas? With apm stuff like suspend when closing the lid usually goes through the BIOS settings. The only thing you'll find in /proc is /proc/apm. And IIRC this does not give you the status of the lid button or similar. Cheers, Ralph -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080409/86c8b390/attachment-0004.sig>