Lid suspend problem with a Dell Laptop - Jessie

[Juha Heinanen <jh@tutpro.com>]

Charles Fabbri writes:

>      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.

I had exactly the same problem.  I did two things and don't know which
one fixed the problem:

- installed xfce4-power-manager to control the lid switch (suspend if
  switch is pressed)

- upgraded to 4.0 linux-image from experimental

-- Juha