Re: Freeze on Lid close

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hirantha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a laptop HP Compaq 6710b running on Fedora 8 with the latest 
> updates. I have an issue that when I press the lid button, the Laptop 
> get freeze and the possible way is to recover -- hard power reset.  I 
> noticed that this is due to the video card driver which is Intel 965GM. 
> I changed to some other diver vesa and it is working fine. And other 
> thing I checked, if I shut the ACPI (acpi=off) everything is fine but I 
> loss lots of features on my laptop.
>
> I download the Intel drivers from the 
> http://intellinuxgraphics.org/download.html and compiled it.
> xf86-video-intel and drm. Then it is started to work. But if I run the 
> system-config-display and save the xorg.conf with Intel driver, it 
> freezes again. And only recovering is re-compiling the drm and 
> xf86-video-intel. I can't install the meas for 3D GL driver too -- 
> giving compilation issue.
>
> Please let me know if someone has working config with Intel Mobile GM 
> 960 driver with mesa.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> -+> Hirantha
You may want to edit /etc/acpi/events/video.conf and see it that 
fixes the problem without having to compile your own driver.

Mikkel
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