| gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 8 Jul 2003 00:30:25 -0400 |
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On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:01:47AM -0400, eric@lucii.org wrote: > That was my thought too - that or a hall effect sensor embedded in > the case? Heh. Hall Effect sensors are for distributor caps. There's really no reason to be that complicated in a laptop (or to add to one something that's going to generate electro-magnetic fields--which things like hard drives tend not to like too much when they come in the foreign and perpendicular variety--and then measure voltage based on them), though I guess you could, as long as everything was shielded properly. Typically lid-latches are just micro-switches, though Zake's problem could easily have been that the switch is in the hinge assembly rather than in the latch assembly. (My Thinkpads, for instance, go into sleep mode about an inch and a half from closed; clearly, there's something in the hinge doing this work, not in the latch.) I agree that the real solution to his problem is to just diddle the switch (or maybe flip some APM bit in the laptop's BIOS that makes it ignore the state of the lid?), but laptop hardware is notoriously flaky and laptop BIOSes even more so. If hanging to display an "open me!" message on reboot is acceptable for his application, I'm not going to argue. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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