Calyth writes:
 > Quite simply put any apm calls (whether closing the lid or explicitly hitting
 > the suspend keys) in XF4 on Debian GNU/Linux (woody/testing) doesn't work
 > well. It will manage to freeze, and there's no keyboard no mouse, can't kill
 > the server, no control-alt-delete....
 > However, the machine was running potato (stable) and uses some version of
 > XF3.3.x using the svga drivers, and it worked flawlessly. I could open and
 > close the lid all i want and it won't crash.
 > I'll check it out once again to double check.
 > 

There are different sources of deadlocks. 
Did I mention apmd's feature to switch to another vt on suspend?
Remove it. Also xmessage may be causing problems when the FIFO
queue is full but X doesn't accept requests.

Egbert.
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