This bug has appeared for me as a regression with 8.10. The lid switch was correctly detected in a standard installation of 8.04! The lid witch is always reported as "open".
The machine is a HP Compaq nx7400. A -- /proc/acpi/button/lid/*/state always says "open" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89860 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs