Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/25 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I, too, am interested in the answer, if there is one. I am thinking of using the Asus eee (read no hard drive) for processing in a robot. It seems to me that if the robot is moving there is less likely to be a problem if the lid is shut, than if it

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-25 Thread elijah r.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I, too, am interested in the answer, if there is one. I am thinking of using the Asus eee (read no hard drive) for processing in a robot. It Hello, If you are running Debian on your EeePC and are using the eeepc-acpi

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-25 Thread Jochen Antesberger
Am Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:10:08 +0300 schrieb Dotan Cohen: 2008/6/24 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I do not know the solution to your problem. But first of all is it advisable to move a computer while it is running? You can induce a lot of vibration into the electrical/mechanical

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/25 Jochen Antesberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The disk will spin down very quickly. If it took five seconds I'd be surprised. Also carrying around a laptop while it is running won't be a problem at all. The drives can take it. Just don't drop it or bang it onto the table. I once saw a laptop

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/25 Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In any case, the issue is not whether or not to leave it running while I'm walking across the library. The issue is doing it with the lid up or down. What can I do to instruct the computer not to suspend in response to ACPI events for X seconds? Er, I

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/6/25 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I, too, am interested in the answer, if there is one. I am thinking of using the Asus eee (read no hard drive) for processing in a robot. It seems to me that if the robot is moving there is less likely to be a problem if the lid

Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
My Dell Inspiron laptop running KDE suspends to RAM automatically when I close the lid. Usually, this is the behaviour that I want. However, sometimes I need to walk from place to place with the machine and I'd like to close the lid without suspending. Is there a script that I can run to tell the

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-24 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Dotan Cohen wrote: My Dell Inspiron laptop running KDE suspends to RAM automatically when I close the lid. Usually, this is the behaviour that I want. However, sometimes I need to walk from place to place with the machine and I'd like to close the lid without suspending. Is there a script

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/24 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I do not know the solution to your problem. But first of all is it advisable to move a computer while it is running? You can induce a lot of vibration into the electrical/mechanical components (hard drive failure comes to my mind) while

Re: Closing laptop without suspending

2008-06-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: My Dell Inspiron laptop running KDE suspends to RAM automatically when I close the lid. Usually, this is the behaviour that I want. However, sometimes I need to walk from place to place with the machine and I'd like to close the lid without