Re: lid switch on dell latitude d800 freezes system

Malcolm Caldwell
2003-05-16T01:40:59Z

Ok,

I have more or less confirmed that the problem is, as Michael suggested,
the nvidia driver. If I never start X the lid button does nothing
except log stuff into the log file. With X started once, even if it is
no longer running running the system freezes.

So - what now? Report this to nvidia? Try to work this out in some
other way? Any hints where to look?

On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 03:02, Malcolm Caldwell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running 2.4.21-rc1 with acpi patches. I have also patched to run a
> custom dstc which I got from someone on the net. (The interface at
> acpi.sourceforge.net fails to find the dstc that it says are there -
> however the author's email address is there and he sent it to me
> directly)
>
> The only problem is that the lid switch freezes the machine. As far as
> I know the freeze only happens if something is reading from
> /proc/acpi/events (although I would have to do some more testing to
> verify this).
>
> Can anyone give any hints on how to go about fixing this?
>
>
>
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