Solved ACPI, sleep: suspend by default for the power button

[Cath O'Deray]

I experimented:

$ grep -i acpi /boot/loader.conf
hw.acpi.power_button_state="S3"
$

Not effective. I guess, because hw.acpi.power_button_state is a sysctl variable but not a loader tunable; acpi(4).

Is there a way to have the button suspend by default?

TIA

 

[stig]

Have you looked in this thread https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/6942/ ? You can set the option in sysctl.conf. Not sure if that is enough to make your EliteBook suspend.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Thanks, I wasn't aware of the existence of /etc/sysctl.conf – that's what I needed.

I had not read lid-related topic 6942 because the notebook is sometimes used in clamshell mode.

(OT: wake from sleep is reliable. Sleep is not reliable; I'll pursue this elsewhere.)