[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#555110: acpi-support: lid events affect external monitor as well as laptop panel

[Bruce LaZerte]

Package: acpi-support
Version: 0.123-1
Severity: normal

/etc/acpi/lid.sh appears to treat open and close lid events by calling
screensaver routines.
But the screensaver routines affect all monitors connected, including
my external monitor.

So after I close the lid, both my external monitor and panel go off.
And when I move the mouse, they both come back on.
But I don't  want the panel on when the lid is closed. It gets hot and
burns up energy.

lid.sh should affect only the panel and be independent of the
screensaver routines.

I have modified mine by adding "xrandr --output LVDS --off" and
"xrandr --output LVDS --auto" after the two "export DISPLAY=" lines
and removing the screensaver stuff there.

But this only works when LVDS is the panel name. Other drivers may
have different names for the panel?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages acpi-support depends on:
ii  acpi-support-base             0.123-1    scripts for handling base ACPI eve
ii  acpid                         1.0.10-2   Utilities for using ACPI power man
ii  dmidecode                     2.9-1.1    Dump Desktop Management Interface
ii  finger                        0.17-13    user information lookup program
ii  hdparm                        9.15-1     tune hard disk parameters for high
ii  laptop-detect                 0.13.7     attempt to detect a laptop
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  pm-utils                      1.2.5-4    utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  powermgmt-base                1.30+nmu1  Common utils and configs for power
ii  x11-xserver-utils             7.4+2      X server utilities

Versions of packages acpi-support recommends:
ii  dbus                          1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal                           0.5.13-3   Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  nvclock                       0.8b4-1    Allows you to overclock your nVidi
ii  radeontool                    1.5-5      utility to control ATI Radeon back
ii  toshset                       1.75-1     Access much of the Toshiba laptop

Versions of packages acpi-support suggests:
pn  laptop-mode-tools             <none>     (no description available)

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