preventing sleep on lid close

[Jake]

Is there I way I can prevent my laptop from sleeping when I close the lid? I can't find any settings in System Preferences. In Linux a daemon listens for the ACPI event generated by the lid switch, in BSD a sysctl controlls the lid switch behavior, but I don't know how Darwin does it or where to reconfigure the behavior. I found a PPC app that's supposed to prevent sleeping, but it doesn't work.

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Is there I way I can prevent my laptop from sleeping when I close the lid? I can't find any settings in System Preferences. In Linux a daemon listens for the ACPI event generated by the lid switch, in BSD a sysctl controlls the lid switch behavior, but I don't know how Darwin does it or where to reconfigure the behavior. I found a PPC app that's supposed to prevent sleeping, but it doesn't work.

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if you use platform=ACPI you can configure the appleACPIplatform.KEXT , im actually trying to fix the sleep problem, but im to amateur at this. i dont think its normal for my processor to be so active when my lid is closed.i would like for the hibernation feature to work.

[ohpossum]

if you use platform=ACPI you can configure the appleACPIplatform.KEXT , im actually trying to fix the sleep problem, but im to amateur at this. i dont think its normal for my processor to be so active when my lid is closed.i would like for the hibernation feature to work.

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I also spent some time trying to get some ACPI functions on my Dell D600. The ACPIDisplay.kext is failing to load at startup with "undefined symbols" errors.

 

So, the result is no screen saver and no lid closing hibernation.

[Jake]

if you use platform=ACPI you can configure the appleACPIplatform.KEXT , im actually trying to fix the sleep problem, but im to amateur at this. i dont think its normal for my processor to be so active when my lid is closed.i would like for the hibernation feature to work.

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Is your processor really active? My fan keeps going, but it blows cool air, and the laptop doesn't respond to pings.

 

I've looked at the Info.plist files for all of the ACPI stuff and haven't found anything that looks like it'll do what I want.