I am hoping that other laptop users may be able to come to my rescue. I have a Dell Latitude D430, I have everything working, YEA!! The one thing I can’t work out is. When I close the lid on the laptop it shuts the screen off. When I open it again, the screen does not come back. I just installed Haiku on this, I did have Aros, and before that Linux, and it worked fine then. It is forcing me to hold down the power button to shut off haiku and the bring it back up. this isn’t good for the OS. I can either try to remember to never, ever shut the lid while Haiku is running. Or, hope someone here may have seen this and know a way around it. I have looked in the Bios and can’t find anything that would seem to help.
But, what joy, everything works Native Video, NIC, Wireless, Sound (via opensound) Ahhh, bliss…
We currently lack drivers for for lid handling in ACPI, so the behaviour is up to the BIOS. Hopefully it will be implemented soon. It’s quite a simple task, but not without challanges, if anyone would want to start working with ACPI and drivers.
Thanks, I can’t find a way to turn it off in my BIOS. So, for the mean time I will have to remember to not completely close the lid. Other then that this laptop works flawlessly with Haiku.
We mentioned this on another thread. Since Haiku boots so fast, you might as well turn it off and boot up if needed in customs or airport security check. I know it uses juice, but so does leaving the lid about halfway open.
If this can be fixed it’d be a real boon to us all
Have you seen the current discussions on the development mailing-list about a session manager? Can be really good, both for laptops as it’s required for sleep/hybernate, but also for desktops.
Native Video, NIC, Wireless, Sound (via opensound) Ahhh, bliss…