Lid suspend problem with a Dell Laptop - Jessie

[Charles Fabbri <cfabbriumd@gmail.com>]

Good Afternoon,

    I have weird problem with the lid switch on an old Dell Latitude 
D505 laptop. I did a clean install of Jessie and everything is working 
fine, except the lid switch freezes the computer.

    It's not a suspend problem, because I can suspend properly from the 
shutdown menu and the suspend button on the laptop. The computer 
suspends correctly if I do a pm-suspend command.

    However, when I close the lid, the computer screen goes black 
except for the cursor and it does not move. I cannot do a ctrl+alt+F1 to 
get to a terminal, nor can I restart the X session. I even set the lid 
behavior to do nothing, and the same behavior occurs.

    The laptop had Wheezy on it before and the lid switch worked as 
expected.

    I did not see anything in /var/log/syslog or 
/var/log/pm-suspend.log that could explain this. Could anyone point out 
how I can debug/fix the laptop lid switch so it does not freeze the 
computer?

Charles Fabbri