Re: Lid suspend problem with a Dell Laptop - Jessie
On 2015-05-11, Janis Hamme <lists.oss@hamme.info> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
The issue mentioned by Janis was covered in the release notes:
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#idp942368
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Liam
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