Screen blank on lid-close causes the computer to stop responding.

[Daniel Bermudez G.]

I'm having the same problem on a Dell Inspiron 6000 but the weird thing
is that I don't have this problem on fresh installations but it starts
after some updates and once in feisty it solved itself after more
updates (and the it broke again).

I have to say it is VERY annoying not being able to close your lap top's
lid

One work around i found was to press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and blindly login and
type "sudo vbetool dpms on" and then the screens goes back on. Also very
annoying. 


On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:04 +0200, Leonard Broman wrote:
> Hey everybody!
> 
> I have this issue with my dell XPS M1210. The symptoms are described in:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/150165
> 
> Apperently one the reporting laptop testers for this machine have had
> this issue too and suggests configuring for suspendtoram or hibernate
> for lid-close to avoid the problem.
> 
> I wanted to check here if this is a known issue concerning more
> systems and if my bug report should be refiled somewhere else. And if
> this should be reported somewhere for the ubuntu supported on dell
> products, since it is now official?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Leonard Broman
>