On 10 October 2011 15:39, Kris Douglas <krisdoug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 October 2011 15:22, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 10 October 2011 15:02, James Morrissey <morrissey.jam...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> 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. > >> > > > > Yes, I'm hoping 11.10 will support it better: the two problems I have are > > what appears to be a spontaneous sleep which it won't recover from and > > occasional freezing of the mouse for a couple of seconds, which appears > in > > the logs and is apparently a long standing bug with some synaptics > > touchpads. > > > Sounds like something to do with the graphics, what card does your > machine have in it? > > ATI Radeon 410 I think. Having now looked I've found that there's a proprietary FGLRX driver for the machine which I'm now installing. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood "post-apocalyptic allen keys"
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