Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-12 Thread Mofeed Shahin
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:19, Mof wrote: /var/log/messages somefilename.txt Then close the lid. and see if it gives you any useful info. I tried this but there is nothing showing up in /var/log/messages. Mof. What this indicates is that ACPI is doing what it thinks it's supposed to do

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed. SOLVED!!

2003-11-12 Thread Mofeed Shahin
On Wednesday 12 Nov 2003 12:23 am, Mof wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:47 am, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:43, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Nov 2003 2:37 pm, Jack Coates wrote: With the extra information of not attempting resume allowing it to boot, I'll wager

Re: [expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-09 Thread Mofeed Shahin
reply-to still a problem. Yeah must be something I've done with kmail. On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 23:56, Mof wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 05:28 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:44, Mof wrote: It appears that acpi and apm do the same thing, which is the prefered one to use

[expert] Dell laptop hangs with 9.2 when lid closed.

2003-11-07 Thread Mofeed Shahin
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