Re: Flooded by button/lid events

Matthew Garrett
2005-11-17T14:53:51Z

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:06:57AM +0100, Felix Homann wrote:

> [Thu Nov 17 08:53:05 2005] received event "button/lid LID 00000080 000002df"
>
> show up more than 40 times per second!

Some BIOSes expect the video driver to clear the lid event. Hilarity
then ensues when you're using something other than the Windows video
driver. This was an issue on some HPs, but they issued a BIOS update
that fixed it.

If you've got Windows on the system, try checking what happens if you
boot in safe mode and press the lid switch.
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