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It's my first time running ubuntu server and I'm trying to figure out a way to prevent the machine from going into suspend mode (I'm guessing) when the Lid is closed on the Laptop.

Is it possible to stop the laptop from entering suspend mode when the lid is closed? Possibly without needing to install some GUI package.

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Power management is handled by acpid; man 8 acpid and poke around in /etc/acpi/events.

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Then what you're seeing now is what the BIOS is configured to do in the absence of an ACPI handler in the OS. You may or may not be able to tell the BIOS how to behave; if you can't, you'll need to install the acpid package. You'll also want to apt-get source --download-only acpi-support and poke through it; actually installing the package requires X11 because many of the support scripts are for X11 multimedia foo. (This is arguably a packaging bug.) – geekosaur Mar 12 '11 at 5:05
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