RE: [PLUG] pre-reboot scripted message?

["kaze" <kaze@voicenet.com>]

The switch is in the hinge assembly and this is defiantly one of those
machines where one doesn't want to disturb the dust and whatnot holding it
together. Nothing in appropriate in the BIOS - though I haven't looked at
flashing it. Given more time I might revisit the physical switch. For now
though I have Gab's code which I will test today, and will also leave the
lid ajar - I'll set the screen to blank after a few minutes so the huge
crack won't detract from the lights-out-rack.

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--> [mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of gabriel
--> rosenkoetter
--> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:29 AM
--> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
--> Subject: Re: [PLUG] pre-reboot scripted message?
-->
-->
--> 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
-->

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