Bug#528360: xserver-xorg-core: closing the laptop lid blanks the screen permanently

[Michal Suchanek <michal.suchanek@ruk.cuni.cz>]

Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Hramrach <michal.suchanek@ruk.cuni.cz> (12/05/2009):
> > When I close the laptop lid while in X the screen is blanked.
> > When I open it the screen is unblanked for a moment and then blanked
> > again.
> >
> > This is possibly kernel version related or acpid related, I cannot
> > recall upgrading anything else recently.
>
> Could you please try with a recent kernel? See second part of [1],
> which is somehow valid for radeon as well.
>
>  1. http://ikibiki.org/blog/2010/02/28/Where_have_you_been/

This is still broken with recent stuff (KMS capable) unless KMS is used.


KMS is broken on this hardware, though.

The kernel is 2.6.32-3-686.

Thanks

Michal