On Saturday 08 November 2003 08:05 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Saturday 08 November 2003 12:43 am, Mofeed Shahin wrote: > > G'day all, > > > > I've just put 9.2 onto my Dell inspiron 8200, which is a Intel 2.2 Mobile > > chip, and ati radeon video. > > > > As soon as the lid is closed the the machine has a complete lock up. ie > > no keyboard, no mouse, and no screen updates.... > > > > I just tried upgrading the kernel to kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm, > > and it still happens. > > > > I tried closing and opening the lid quickly, and it still locks up. > > > > The laptop worked fine under 9.1, if that helps... > > I suspect that ACPI may have problems. When you close the lid, it might be > attempting to go into suspend mode and that may be blocked by improper or > non-existant instance of ACPI on your laptop. > > Can you check to see if acpid is active, or apmd?
If this is the case, check your BIOS to see if the machine is set to go into suspend when closing the lid. If you just want the display to go off, you should be able to set this in the BIOS. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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