Bug#273169: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686: System crash when notebook lid is closed

[Daniel Vollmer <maven@maven.de>]

Hello Erik,

Friday, September 24, 2004, 13:56:43, you wrote:

> Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686
> Version: 2.6.8-3
> Severity: important

> My notebood Dell Latitude D600 crashes when I close the lid.  With
> kernels up to 2.6.8-2, closing the lid was ignored by the system.  I
> did not change any system configuration that I know of, except update
> the kernel package (and some other probably unrelated packages).

Same here on my Dell Inspiron 8600 with Bios A10. I think the problems
were introduced by having the kernel pretend it's Windows to the ACPI
bios. acpi_poweroff stopped working for me too, btw.

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    Daniel.                         http://www.maven.de
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