#8137 HIGH Not Tri: Backlight does not turn off when the lid is closed and the laptop suspended automatically

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#8137: Backlight does not turn off when the lid is closed and the laptop suspended
automatically
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   Reporter:  benzea     |       Owner:  cjb          
       Type:  defect     |      Status:  new          
   Priority:  high       |   Milestone:  Not Triaged  
  Component:  kernel     |     Version:  not specified
 Resolution:             |    Keywords:               
Next_action:  never set  |    Verified:  0            
  Blockedby:             |    Blocking:               
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Comment(by dsaxena):

 Replying to [comment:3 cjb]:
 > Oh, I see.  I think I knew this would happen.  If we're already in an
 "idle suspend", then closing the lid does nothing.
 >
 > I don't think we can fix this easily.  We'd have to expose the lid GPIO
 setting to userspace, I guess, so that it can be acted on differently in
 "suspend" and "sleep".  Hardware people, what do you think?

 I don't have my XO with me ATM but I'm thinking that since the device is
 registered via the input layer, there has to be some way to already get
 the lid state w/o needing an XO-specific export of the GPIO status.
 Looking at the input code, it looks like you should find something in
 /proc/input that will give you the current status. I'll test when I get
 back to my XO later today or tommorrow.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8137#comment:6>
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