[ubuntu-uk] Suspend on lid close - Thinkpad x121e

[Kris Douglas]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 03:56:03PM +0100, Simon Greenwood wrote:
> On 10 October 2011 15:39, Kris Douglas <krisdouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 10 October 2011 15:22, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 10 October 2011 15:02, James Morrissey <morrissey.james1 at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> No. Changing the SATA didn't seem to do anything. Screen still wouldn't
> > >> resume when i opened the lid.
> > >>
> > >> On the whole, i think the machine is good. Its certainly performs better
> > >> than the ancient one i had before this - Asus ARP6.
> > >>
> > >> That said, the hardware doesn't seem to be quite so well supported, but
> > i
> > >> see that this model is now endorsed by Canonical and i am hoping that it
> > >> goes a little better under Oneric.
> > >>
> > >> All the problems i have appear to pertain to the screen: Sometimes text
> > >> disappears from my word processor or emails, it takes a bunch of times
> > >> resetting the dual monitor set-up to get both monitors to register and,
> > as
> > >> is the subject of this thread, the suspend-on-lid-close won't work.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Yes, I'm hoping 11.10 will support it better: the two problems I have are
> > > what appears to be a spontaneous sleep which it won't recover from and
> > > occasional freezing of the mouse for a couple of seconds, which appears
> > in
> > > the logs and is apparently a long standing bug with some synaptics
> > > touchpads.
> >
> >
> > Sounds like something to do with the graphics, what card does your
> > machine have in it?
> >
> >
> ATI Radeon 410 I think. Having now looked I've found that there's a
> proprietary FGLRX driver for the machine which I'm now installing.
> 
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I was about to recommend that, I think that might actually solve a lot of the problems you are experiencing after a reboot. 


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