Hello again, I want my notebook's LCD screen to turn off when I close the notebook and then turn back on when I open it up again. I opened/closed my notebook and looked in /var/log/acpid: [Thu Jun 2 15:35:18 2005] received event "button/lid LID 00000080 00000001" [Thu Jun 2 15:35:18 2005] completed event "button/lid LID 00000080 00000001" [Thu Jun 2 15:35:46 2005] received event "button/lid LID 00000080 00000002" [Thu Jun 2 15:35:46 2005] completed event "button/lid LID 00000080 00000002" So obviously I need to add a conf my /etc/acpi/events dir: event=button/lid LID 00000080 00000001 action=???turn on LCD??? event=button/lid LID 00000080 00000002 action=???turn off LCD??? What should those actions be? Thanks for the help. -- C