Re: Lid suspend problem with a Dell Laptop - Jessie

[Janis Hamme <lists.oss@hamme.info>]

Check /etc/systemd/logind.conf and set

HandleLidSwitch=ignore

I had problems with systemd suspending suspending my nootebook some
months ago. However it seems to respect the settings of the xfce
power-manger now. Maybe the setting does help for you.

Janis


On 10.05.2015 23:17, Charles Fabbri 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.
> 
>      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
> 
>