On 18 June 2010 16:12, Christoph Rissner <c.r@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/18/2010 09:54 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: >> >> That_is_ the default behaviour - the laptop should do nothing at all >> when the lid is closed. I know of no particular hardware/BIOS that >> sets a sleep action upon lid closure. It is only altered by userspace >> tools/daemons like for eg. when using a DE. > > I know, in my case its acpi-eeepc-generic that, by default, suspends the > system when closing the lid. > > But thats not the point. What I tried to say is, I do have an Intel video > card and experienced problems as mentioned in the original post. > I didn't have to suspend the system but just close the screen lid (turning > it off), then after opening the lid again the screen would remain blank/off > occasionally, no matter what I tried. > > However, it didn't happen to me in the last month, IIRC there was a kernel > update, I think this has resolved my issues. Ahh, alright. I myself have last faced it last year, and I did find it very strange that such a hardware-level feature could have anything to do with the OS. I have never bothered to figure it out, it just works now. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD
