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

[Leonard Broman]

That worked for me too. I've added it to the bug report. Thanks!

On 10/13/07, Daniel Bermudez G. <nergar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
>
>