[arch-general] intel video & suspend

[Ray Rashif]

On 18 June 2010 16:12, Christoph Rissner <c.r at visotech.at> wrote:
> On 06/18/2010 09:54 AM, Ray Rashif wrote:
>>
>> That_is_  the default behaviour - the laptop should do nothing at all
>> when the lid is closed. I know of no particular hardware/BIOS that
>> sets a sleep action upon lid closure. It is only altered by userspace
>> tools/daemons like for eg. when using a DE.
>
> I know, in my case its acpi-eeepc-generic that, by default, suspends the
> system when closing the lid.
>
> But thats not the point. What I tried to say is, I do have an Intel video
> card and experienced problems as mentioned in the original post.
> I didn't have to suspend the system but just close the screen lid (turning
> it off), then after opening the lid again the screen would remain blank/off
> occasionally, no matter what I tried.
>
> However, it didn't happen to me in the last month, IIRC there was a kernel
> update, I think this has resolved my issues.

Ahh, alright. I myself have last faced it last year, and I did find it
very strange that such a hardware-level feature could have anything to
do with the OS. I have never bothered to figure it out, it just works
now.


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