Help needed with Karmic laptop lid troubleshooting

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:13:37 +0200 Manuel Siggen <manuel at siggen.ch> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
>> I have a Dell Latitude D430 which this week developed a pretty debilitating
>> problem in Karmic.  If I close the lid, the lid open even doesn't get
>> recognized and so the screen never comes back on.  I need some help narrowing
>> down which package I should focus on to look for the problem.
>>
>> Details:
>>
>> The problem was introduced into the archive between 9 Oct and 14 Oct (I didn't
>> update the laptop between those two times).
>>
>> Pitti has the same laptop and it's working fine in Gnome.
>>
>> We verified that the lid open event is being sent by the kernel using input-
>> events from input-utils.
>>
>> If I close the lid and open it, it stays off.  If I suspend, it unsuspends and
>> enables the display fine.
>>
>> I already tried N-1 Intel video drivers, kernel, and kdebase-workspace
>> (powerdevel).
>>
>> Suggestions please?  Not being able to close the laptop lid is really
>> unpleasant.
>>
>
>Could it be the same problem as described in bug
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417599 : that is the screen back-light
>stays turned off ?
>
Thanks for the suggestion.  That predates my laptop not working, but I did revert to a pm-utils that predates the problem with no success.

Scott K