Lid switch freezes laptop (was: Laptop power management support)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 09:41:20AM -0800, Joe Barnett wrote:

> I'm running ubuntu (hoary) on a Dell inspiron 8600.  Through ACPI,
> I've set up the LID switch to run a script to echo -n "mem" >
> /sys/power/state after unloading some modules (ndiswrapper, uhci_hcd,
> and ehci_hcd).  The problem I'm having is that some random percentage
> of the time, hitting the lid switch hard freezes the machine, with no
> messages to /var/log/acpid or /var/log/syslog (tail -f'ed from an
> ssh-connection).  How can I go about trying to figure out what's going
> wrong here?

Someone else on a Dell laptop experienced a similar problem:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3300

If you have any information which is not already in the bug, please follow
up there.

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 - mdz