On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 12:19:14PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote:
ACPI problems with laptops and Linux tend to occur. I had a similar
Hmmmn, The problem tends to be people writing an ACPI bios and compiling with the Microsoft compiler (the intel one works better, fwict) which allows them to compile a buggy DSDT table. It also seems that despite ACPI having been a decent standard for so long people still don't stick to it, of course the Linux implementation appears to be "complete" and stick to the standard, of course the implementations in Windows break the rules so don't care of silly problems. (At least from what I have read about the subject that seems to be the situation)
If I switch (Ctrl-Alt-F1) to the plain console, then all is OK.
But if it's displaying X (as in Alt-F7) either when I press the lid button or when (after 10 minutes) the machine goes into suspend, then somehow it is locked. Pressing Fn+[display switcher function key] gives a brief ghostly flash of the original X display. but further progress is impossible.
So: if closing the lid, I do Ctrl-Alt-F1 first.
Also: I have written a little script (loaded at boot) which monitors
If you are running acpid you could create events tied to actions (such as closing the lid) so that when pushing the lid button it goes to sleep (or whatever it does) and then when opening the lid runs the script you have written which would save you having to wait 5 minutes.
Adam