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: [ksandhu at krs ~] cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state info state Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.22.14-72.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux 21:08:42 up 10 days, 50 min, 2 users, load average: 0.58, 0.34, 0.20