Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 08:54 -0800, Wes Hardaker wrote: >>>>>>> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:32:16 -0800, Bill Kendrick <[email protected]> said: >> BK> Yes, this laptop has the habit of heating up, esp. when it's closed. >> BK> (i.e., I'm not even interacting with it!) >> >> They're really not designed to run with the lid closed (ever). >> >> I actually had a co-worker that shut their lid and thought it slept and >> put it into their backpack and walked around for an hour. It was >> "blazing hot" when they pulled it out and amazingly didn't have any >> problems. > > I unfortunately have such an insomniac laptop. I think that it's likely > that the lid button is too sensitive to bumps, and would like to know if > there's a way to work around this in software. (e.g. if the computer > wakes up to find that the lid button is closed, put the computer back to > sleep automatically.) > > Any tips? > > --Ken > > >
The tried and true method is to turn it off. If you really care about fast load times, get a solid state and be done with it. I long since gave up on using any of the sleep,hibernate etc modes as they are simply unreliable. Even if they work one day, a few updates later always seems to break them. Case, how many windows xp desktops do you know of that can still properly go sleep and come back. Every one I ever worked on had that feature stop working somewhere between years 1 and 3. You could always physically hack you laptop and replace the lid sensor with a physical switch of some kind. Alex _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
