This happens for me on a Dell D420. Changing the acpi lid.sh, as noted above, fixes the problem for me. Also, I tried the pipe quirk setting in my xorg.conf, but it only resulted in a bad display.
** Attachment added: "lspci -vvnn" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37330458/lspci-vvnn -- [i915gm] karmic 2.6.31-2 and -3 lid closing blacks screen until reboot on thinkpad r52 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399636 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp