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[Chris Lasher <chris.lasher@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry Ricky, I often don't know which packages a lot of these bugs are
tied to.

I spoke with a friend with an IBM Thinkpad with accelerometers
originally designed to be used for detecting if the notebook is falling
(drop-detection). He told me that someone wrote a driver so that
apparently it acts as an input device, basically as a joystick. Is this
also the case for the MacBook, which also has accelerometers?

Typically the MacBook wakes on interaction with an input device. If the
accelerometer is acting as an input device, it would be really nice if
it were prevented from being an acceptable input device for system wake.

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MacBook 5.1 resumes from suspend (wakes) when jostled/dropped.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/375796
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Status in The Linux Kernel: New
Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in pm-utils: New

Bug description:
My MacBook 5.1 (late 2008 aluminum model) resumes from suspend (wakes) when dropped or jostled mildly. This is very undesirable behavior. The computer has woken several times during travel and gotten dangerously hot in its sleeve once. When I set it down today I noticed it turned on before I opened the lid. I then repeated by suspending and gently dropping it again and sure enough, it's waking when being jostled like this.

Steps to repeat:
1) Suspend
2) Shake, thump, or gently drop the MacBook
3) Observe that it resumes, even with lid closed