On Sun, 10 May 2015 17:17:58 -0400 Charles Fabbri <cfabbriumd@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Are you able to log in the laptop remotely? Can you do that before the session freezes and see if that also is affected? Also, try using sysrq[1] to reboot to see if the kernel has frozen, or if it's just userspace. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_sysrq Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
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