No. Changing the SATA didn't seem to do anything. Screen still wouldn't
resume when i opened the lid.
On the whole, i think the machine is good. Its certainly performs better
than the ancient one i had before this - Asus ARP6.
That said, the hardware doesn't seem to be quite so well supported, but
i see that this model is now endorsed by Canonical and i am hoping that
it goes a little better under Oneric.
All the problems i have appear to pertain to the screen: Sometimes text
disappears from my word processor or emails, it takes a bunch of times
resetting the dual monitor set-up to get both monitors to register and,
as is the subject of this thread, the suspend-on-lid-close won't work.
j
On 10/10/11 14:09, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 10 October 2011 13:45, James Morrissey <morrissey.jam...@gmail.com
<mailto:morrissey.jam...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could help me in getting my
suspend-on-lid-close to work on my Thinkpad x121e.
This is a new piece of hardware and there doesn't appear to be
much on the web for solving it the problem.
When i close the lid, the machine seems to suspend, but when i
open it i am met with a blank screen and can do nothing other than
hard power down. I have noticed, however, that when i have my
machine plugged into an external monitor, i can close the lid,
observe the suspend and then open the lid to get a password login
screen.
So it seems that the suspend is working but that the monitor
doesn't come back to life when i open the lid. Having an external
monitor plugged in seems to wake the monitor up and so give me the
login screen.
This makes me think that this might not be too hard to solve. i
don't really understand a lot of the hardware stuff but think that
there might be a simple way to make sure that the screen triggers
when i open the lid (or make the machine think that there is an
external monitor plugged in). I am guessing that there is just a
switch that i need to stick to 'on'.
Someone has suggested adding nomodeset to the grub kernel
parameters, but i am not sure how to do this or what other effects
of doing it might be.
The thinkpad x121e is great as a portable machine. Getting this to
work would vastly increase its portability.
Any suggestions?
I had a similar problem with a Thinkpad Edge 11 that I bought the
other week as an emergency replacement for my Dell XPS. The solution
for that was to change sata-mode from AHCI to compatibility in the
BIOS, which works *most* but not all of the time. There are also boot
args which I can't find online right now and that I haven't tried. I
would be interested to know how you're finding Ubuntu on it as it's
not wholly satisfactory to me.
s/
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