Remove ACPI lid

[tyanlion]

Hi,

I really like my x60s but one thing has been driving me nutz and that is the lid. In hardware manager if I disable/uninstall the ACPI lid in system devices will this stop the lid sensing?? Btw i can't seem to disable this at all is it some safety catch or do i have to go to registry to force it.

[Stargate199]

I assume you want to disable the computer going to standby when you close the lid. When you close the lid, the backlight will always turn off, and you cannot change that setting. For the lid, if you are using Windows XP, open the control panel and open power options. From there. Click on the Advance tab and set the setting that you want the computer to do when you close the lid. If you are using Windows Vista, go to the power options withing the control panel. If you use classic control panel, you should find it easily. Once you have that window, click advance power options. There you should be able to find the setting that will allow to change the lid settings. Hope this helps.

[tyanlion]

Nope it still has the blink problem that the x60s users complain about. I am pretty sure there must be something in device manager that has the ability to sense the closing and opening of the lid which I think is the ACPI lid driver, I was wondering if anyone knew how to turn it off. The power options have no effect. The only person who would be able to identify if this is a hardware or software is doing the sensing would be a linux user I am afraid.

[Stargate199]

ACPI is part of the BIOS. ACPI is required by Windows to run properly, there is no way to uninstall it. ACPI tells Windows how to manage power. My guess is there is something wrong with the lid switch that causes this problem with the X60.

[smugiri]

Might be as simple as changing the ACPI sleep level (assuming that you run linux). Try this link maybe? - I know this is not a solution but it might be a path to an answer.

[tyanlion]

Yeah but I don't use linux thats the problem. Windows must have a hardware switch that senses the lid closing. Btw some parts of the ACPI hardware can be disable in bios except the ACPI lid which i find very weird.


There are actually 2 problems.

1) the X60s seems to go into a semi standby state when i close the lid it will show a visible flash. even when I am listening to music the music will pause and stutter when I open and close the lid. Futhermore on a dual monitor desktop. when i close the lid the system will revert to some other weird setup i didn't want it to be. Its not the presentation director cause i uninstalled it and it still performed similarly. Even on plain vanilla xp installation it does this. The real reason is that the drivers that intel supplies for the x60s has this power save state feature which i can't get rid of. The default ms vista drivers don't seem to have this problem( i don't want to run vista cause it consumes too much battery)

2) so I began to try to see if i could get the rid of this powersave state property in the driver but i couldn't , so I thought of a work around which was to disable the switch on the hardware that senses the lid closing.( I don't really care if i waste battery if the lid is closed)

[Jedacite]

1) the X60s seems to go into a semi standby state when i close the lid it will show a visible flash. even when I am listening to music the music will pause and stutter when I open and close the lid. Futhermore on a dual monitor desktop. when i close the lid the system will revert to some other weird setup i didn't want it to be. Its not the presentation director cause i uninstalled it and it still performed similarly. Even on plain vanilla xp installation it does this. The real reason is that the drivers that intel supplies for the x60s has this power save state feature which i can't get rid of. The default ms vista drivers don't seem to have this problem( i don't want to run vista cause it consumes too much battery)

I have the same problem with mine. I run mine in a dual-head mode, with the laptop LCD as the secondary screen on the right. Closing and opening the LCD will cause it to flicker the screen and change my configuration into clone or mirror mode. The flicker is the same flicker you see when changing presentation modes.

For me this seems to be a software-only problem as it does not occur in Linux (and I don't see how it would really be a hardware problem.)

I would like to see a fix for it, but honestly I haven't tried everything I could yet (like another version of Presentation Director, or changing a few power management settings.