Sony SZ650N/C Lid event not firing

[Ned Boddie]

Hi Danny,

I just saw your email and tried your suggestion - the "lshal -m" option,
and closed and opened the lid.

No events fired at all.

Ned

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 12:18 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Samstag, 11. Oktober 2008, Ned Boddie wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've got Ubuntu Hardy, with the 2.6.24-9 kernel.
> >
> > The lid open close event is not firing, i.e. it never shows up when
> > doing an acpi_listen and closing and opening the lid.
> >
> > I'm wondering if it's a HAL item, so I've done the steps recommended by
> > the Debugging HAL wiki page, and attached them here for review.
> >
> > These logs show the system booting, me logging in, waiting for
> > everything to stabilize, then closing the lid and waiting 5 secs, then
> > opening the lid.
> >
> > Obviously, this works in Windows for comparison.
> >
> > Is this a HAL issue or should I go elsewhere?
> 
> No there is no HAL issue.
> 
> The lid event is no longer going through the acpi layer, but through the input 
> layer. You have the correct device listed in HAL. If you start 'lshal -m' you 
> should be able to see the event if you close the lid.
> 
> Danny
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