On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 27/07/16 14:33, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > That's nice they make cooking laptops in backpacks a low priority. At least
> > it's still on IRC!
>
> Default behavior should be to suspend.
> The problem is removing the option from the user.
The option is still there in gnome-tweak-tool, isn't it? I don't think we should
show options for the users to shoot themselves in the foot.
> > (the right way to fix this would be to get information on how connected
> > standby
> > works on Intel machines, and implement that, not holding my breath though)
>
> The solution should not be H/W dependent.
> I have the same laptop since 2012 and I do not have light sensors for
> example. Should I not have the option to set this manually?
As I mentioned earlier, there are interfaces available to make this work if you
choose to have it behave like that. But you're talking about brightness when
this section of the mail is specifically about not suspending when closing the lid.
Connected standby would be the correct fix, and is available on machines from
about 2012:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InstantGo
and still not available to Linux:
http://lwn.net/Articles/580451/
Is it not available on Linux because someone has to poke it with a
stick to get it to work? i.e. Intel doesn't document it or supply any
open source code to leverage it? Or is it just a resources issue? Or
all of the above?
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Chris Murphy