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  Clamshell mode dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2015-02-27 18:46 +1100
    Re: Clamshell mode befr@eaglesoft.de (Bernd Fröhlich) - 2015-02-27 09:31 +0100
      Re: Clamshell mode dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2015-02-27 23:28 +1100
        Re: Clamshell mode Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-02-27 08:55 -0500
          Re: Clamshell mode dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2015-02-28 10:37 +1100
            Re: Clamshell mode Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-02-28 08:40 -0500
              Re: Clamshell mode dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2015-03-01 10:50 +1100
              Re: Clamshell mode Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2015-03-01 10:51 -0500
                Re: Clamshell mode Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-03-01 16:21 +0000
                  Re: Clamshell mode Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-01 13:19 -0500

#70277 — Clamshell mode

I couldn't wake a clamshelled MB runing on battery only without 
lifting the lid. Didn't realise this for a day or two!

-- 
dorayme

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#70278

dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:

> I couldn't wake a clamshelled MB runing on battery only without 
> lifting the lid. Didn't realise this for a day or two!

Yup. Just found out yesterday from the knowledge-base.
To work with closed lid the power-supply must be connected.

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#70280

In article <1m0hx31.89n24ubu2fjcN%befr@eaglesoft.de>,
 befr@eaglesoft.de (Bernd Fröhlich) wrote:

> dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> > I couldn't wake a clamshelled MB running on battery only, without 
> > lifting the lid. Didn't realise this for a day or two!
> 
> Yup. Just found out yesterday from the knowledge-base.
> To work with closed lid the power-supply must be connected.

It works fine otherwise with the lid closed, it just won't wake up 
without using the lid switch on battery only.

Me, I got it *after* I noticed the machine had powered down because 
the mains power was not attached. I mostly use the MB as a desktop 
attached to stuff like keyboards and monitors and now and then let the 
battery stretch its legs. Normally wake it with a key press on an 
external usb board.

-- 
dorayme

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#70284

In article <do_ray_me-DD9035.23284527022015@aioe.org>,
 dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:

> Me, I got it *after* I noticed the machine had powered down because 
> the mains power was not attached. I mostly use the MB as a desktop 
> attached to stuff like keyboards and monitors and now and then let the 
> battery stretch its legs. Normally wake it with a key press on an 
> external usb board.

That's interesting. When we used a MBP as a "desktop computer," it 
refused to run the external monitor without the mains adapter plugged in.
-- 
Where's the Vangelis music?
Pris' tongue is sticking out in in the wide shot after Batty has kissed her.
They have put back more tits into the Zhora dressing  room scene.
  -- notes for Blade Runner

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#70314

In article <54f07740$0$58833$c3e8da3$88b277c5@news.astraweb.com>,
 Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:

> In article <do_ray_me-DD9035.23284527022015@aioe.org>,
>  dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> > Me, I got it *after* I noticed the machine had powered down because 
> > the mains power was not attached. I mostly use the MB as a desktop 
> > attached to stuff like keyboards and monitors and now and then let the 
> > battery stretch its legs. Normally wake it with a key press on an 
> > external usb board.
> 
> That's interesting. When we used a MBP as a "desktop computer," it 
> refused to run the external monitor without the mains adapter plugged in.

What was your setup? Mine, Snow, about 2010, a real MB, lovely white 
plastic with white keyboard (not the depressing black ones), worked 
fine with a big monitor connected via DVI, using an Apple converter 
plugged in the small squarish monitor hole on side. The independently 
mains powered monitor was plugged in and on before I fired up the MB. 
And, relevant of course, the MB has been set up for years to use the 
big monitor as the main screen with menus there etc. Many relevant 
factors I guess. Your setup would have been different?

-- 
dorayme

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#70326

In article <do_ray_me-1E97BC.10375228022015@aioe.org>,
 dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:

> What was your setup? Mine, Snow, about 2010, a real MB, lovely white 
> plastic with white keyboard (not the depressing black ones), worked 
> fine with a big monitor connected via DVI, using an Apple converter 
> plugged in the small squarish monitor hole on side. The independently 
> mains powered monitor was plugged in and on before I fired up the MB. 
> And, relevant of course, the MB has been set up for years to use the 
> big monitor as the main screen with menus there etc. Many relevant 
> factors I guess. Your setup would have been different?

Ours is an older MBP (4,1) -- it was connected DVI-to-DVI to an external 
Benq 22" monitor (I highly recommend these btw, they just sit and work 
forever it seems). It didn't seem to matter in what order the setup was 
powered on (but obviously the external monitor would have to be "on" if 
I wanted to see anything on it and before the MBP could go into 
clamshell mode). 

We used an external keyboard too (the old one that shipped with that ol' 
puck mouse and Sawtooth -- I'm typing on it now in my Mac Pro; it's a 
bit sticky but I like the small footprint; wish it had a del key but).

I disremember the exact details, but I'd turn it all on and close the 
laptop and it would go into clamshell mode, but wouldn't drive the Benq 
unless it was plugged into the mains. Or something. I could try and 
recreate it if it's important.
-- 
Where's the Vangelis music?
Pris' tongue is sticking out in in the wide shot after Batty has kissed her.
They have put back more tits into the Zhora dressing  room scene.
  -- notes for Blade Runner

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#70333

In article <54f1c540$0$4316$b1db1813$2411a48f@news.astraweb.com>,
 Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> wrote:

> I disremember the exact details, but I'd turn it all on and close the 
> laptop and it would go into clamshell mode, but wouldn't drive the Benq 
> unless it was plugged into the mains. Or something. I could try and 
> recreate it if it's important.

I guess it's not that important. Just one thing, when we close the 
lid, our MBs go to sleep, the question of clamshellness is 
questionable at this point. In my setup, if the power is connected, 
yes, it is in clamshell mode (as shown by its waking without the lid 
needing lifting); but in your setup, it appears not to be so, it was 
merely playing possum and needed the lid switch to wake.

My MB is still on Snow Leopard, maybe this is a factor? My settings 
for energy are don't wake for network, sleep the monitor after a few 
mins and the computer after a few more. 

Planning a couple month trip to USA in a couple of months, might get a 
MB over there, heard they are much cheaper, then I can be all modern 
and still keep the old MB on SL. 

(btw, we are thinking SF first, maybe a week, and a drive in hire car 
around California, through Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico ending in 
Denver, flying to New Orleans, maybe a few days there, then NY NY! for 
a week. 

Have no real idea of what is best but I want to see the country where 
William Munny shot Billy "The House" in the whorehouse saloon, as well 
as blasting other baddies who had to do with the capturing, whipping 
and death of his friend Ed Logan. 

Want to see where Frank Bullitt turned the tables in his Mustang (I 
think) on some gangsters who were tailing him with a shotgun on board 
theirs. I maybe will hire a car and try to take the corner fast and 
frighteningly like he did down a steep SF street.

Want to check out if any houses in Albuquerque are covered in yellow 
or orange plastic where drug labs might be hidden, want to check out 
any graves for Walter White and Hank. I liked Hank. 

Lot to do. I might have time to hit a few trails on horseback in 
search of the remnants of the Balserstone Gang, might even be able to 
round up that Jolly Old, will certainly be on the lookout for blokes 
in pirate hats and eyepatches walking around with iPds, MBs, iPhones 
etc. Am practicing my lassoing skills. I will consider a rendition of 
him to Canada, you can deal with him then.)

-- 
dorayme

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#70343

On 2015.02.28 08:40 , Warren Oates wrote:

> I disremember the exact details, but I'd turn it all on and close the

OT: Disremember always sounds to me like selective memory.   ;-)

-- 
"Your net worth to the world is usually
  determined by what remains after your
  bad habits are subtracted from your good ones."
                                   Benjamin Franklin

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#70344

On 2015-03-01, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2015.02.28 08:40 , Warren Oates wrote:
>
>> I disremember the exact details, but I'd turn it all on and close the
>
> OT: Disremember always sounds to me like selective memory.   ;-)

I know, right? I dislike that word. : )

-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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#70346

In article <clgsjsFev2uU1@mid.individual.net>,
 Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> On 2015-03-01, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> > On 2015.02.28 08:40 , Warren Oates wrote:
> >
> >> I disremember the exact details, but I'd turn it all on and close the
> >
> > OT: Disremember always sounds to me like selective memory.   ;-)
> 
> I know, right? I dislike that word. : )

I'm sure I got it originally from Huckleberry Finn. Really.
-- 
Where's the Vangelis music?
Pris' tongue is sticking out in in the wide shot after Batty has kissed her.
They have put back more tits into the Zhora dressing  room scene.
  -- notes for Blade Runner

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