Help needed with Karmic laptop lid troubleshooting

[Dereck]

I have two laptops that have the same symptoms:

A Dell Insperon 1525, upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 today.

Toshiba Satellite A135, upgraded in September. It has not worked in 9.10 to
date.

~Dereck


On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com>wrote:

> 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
>
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