waking an X60 with the lid shut

[rek]

Has anyone got any ideas as to how you can wake an X60/s from sleep when the lid is shut? Surprisingly enough, I can't find any kind of configuration option to 'wake from external keyboard press' or something... or perhaps I'm just temporarily blind

I've tried my wireless USB keyboard, but pressing buttons on that doesn't seem to wake it up. I heard that it's different in Vista, though?

I know the Ultrabase has a little power button, but I specifically don't want to use that (ref. my fan control thread)

[ibear]

if you try to remove the sleeping X60 from the Ultrabase by pressing the green button on the left side, the X60 will wake up with lid closed.

[Comage]

Why do you wish to wake up the laptop with the screen lid closed?

[rek]

Why do you wish to wake up the laptop with the screen lid closed?

When working at a desk I leave the lid closed; and I don't want to use an Ultrabase, as it causes the fan controller to spin the fan too loudly.

Ideally I'd want it to wake up on external keyboard or mouse activity, but can't find a place where I can configure that. I know I can just open the laptop and press its power button, but a neater solution would be nice

[dr_st]

Don't they have BIOS settings for Wake-on-USB or something?

[Comage]

Ya know, I had an older thinkpad that had it's screen deform and the LCD liquid bust out.

I ran it often with the lid closed (turned the settings to "Do nothing" when lid is closed).

The heat from the base of the laptop got up to the screen, and screwed it up good time.

[sugo]

Don't they have BIOS settings for Wake-on-USB or something?

X60/s should be able to Wake on LAN.

[dmdsoftware]

Thoughtful thread. I never thought about this topic before.

There is the Thinkpad Keyboard Customizer utility. I guess you tried it? It allows you to assign a key combination to an external keyboard for such functions as sleep. I believe the default is the right CTRL button + F4. Let me know if this does the trick.

I normally use the external IBM Thinkpad style keyboard at my desktop. It comes with all the function keys that a Thinkpad keyboard comes with minus the Thinkpad lite function.

http://www-131.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/store ... Id=8581826