On Saturday 08 November 2003, Greg Meyer wrote: >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.
I just checked, and it is _NOT_ set to suspend when the lid is closed. I must mention here again, that this used to work fine under 9.1. ie only a couple of days ago, and I'd not changed any of the BIOS settings in a long time.... Mof.
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