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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    how to make X think that my laptop's lid is always open?
From:       "Bruno Dantas" <kernel () dantas ! airpost ! net>
Date:       2019-11-14 19:12:23
Message-ID: 1446d02b-6749-41f1-91f8-822600bab617 () www ! fastmail ! com
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I would like graphical applications to always think that my laptop's lid is open (or \
else always be completely ignorant of the state of the lid).

Strangely, even if I unbind all of the the kernel's "button" driver's devices, like \
so...

bruno@box:~$ ls /sys/bus/acpi/drivers/button
LNXPWRBN:00  PNP0C0D:00   PNP0C0E:00   bind         uevent       unbind
bruno@box:~$ echo "PNP0C0D:00" | sudo tee /sys/bus/acpi/drivers/button/unbind
PNP0C0D:00
bruno@box:~$ echo "PNP0C0E:00" | sudo tee /sys/bus/acpi/drivers/button/unbind
PNP0C0E:00
bruno@box:~$ echo "LNXPWRBN:00" | sudo tee /sys/bus/acpi/drivers/button/unbind
LNXPWRBN:00
bruno@box:~$ ls /sys/bus/acpi/drivers/button
bind    uevent  unbind

...some X applications such as xscreensaver are still somehow aware of the laptop's \
lid switch (xscreensaver will never start playing its animations while lid is \
closed--only while lid is open). The xscreensaver developer told me that his \
application does not query the lid switch status.

This is not a big problem, of course. However, I'm just REALLY curious as to what's \
going on. Is X capable of directly assessing the state of the lid? Or else my \
graphics module (i915) can directly assess it?

I've been wondering about this for months now. It would be a relief to finally find \
the answer. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
GNUser

Some hardware details:
My computer is pretty vintage: A T400 Thinkpad with intel graphics (i915 kernel \
module is loaded), Xorg 7.7, linux 4.19.10, Libreboot instead of BIOS. My main OS is \
TinyCoreLinux 10.1 64-bit, but I have Devuan ASCII (Debian Stretch sans systemd) on a \
separate partition if we need it. _______________________________________________
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