I'm having the same issue on a Dell Latitude D620. Nothing I've tried seems to bring the screen back short of a stand-by or a full reboot.
Unfortunately I don't see an option in the BIOS to disable the screen- blanking. I have gone through gconf-editor to set the "close lid" behavior to "do nothing", but still the screen blanks.. so I have a feeling it's more a hardware thing with Dells and less a software thing. Hoping that somebody out there can come out with a solution.. it's relatively embarassing taking my laptop into a meeting and opening up the lid only to have to reboot the laptop before I can do anything useful. -- [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