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weteold

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Registered: 2004-09-13

Posts: 7

Dell d600 lid button freezes system

Hi

I just got dell d600 and installed arch linux from 0.7 beta1 base iso and upgraded
everything to the latest versions. I'm using kernel 2.6.8.1

Most of the times when i press lid button (close the screen) then after releasing
it the system freezes.
And by most of the times I mean I managed to release the lid button once (1 time)
without system freeze (system stopped when i pressed lid button second time).

I configured acpid to log the events. Power button and closing the lid is in log
but there is no event when i release the lid button and system still freezes

Have anybody noticed similar behavior?

Hum

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Registered: 2004-06-13

Posts: 46

Re: Dell d600 lid button freezes system

I had something like that too on my 600m but I just did a kernel recompile and took out all the modules etc that I wasn't going to use. That's not exaclty the solution you were probably looking for but that's how I fixed it.

weteold

Member

Registered: 2004-09-13

Posts: 7

Re: Dell d600 lid button freezes system

I recompiled my kernel (took out APM support) and now my machine works fine.

How many users use APM anyway?

longhornxtreme

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Registered: 2004-07-10

Posts: 131

Re: Dell d600 lid button freezes system

I'm getting the same problem with acpid and apmd loaded...

Freezes my 600m completely...

I'm basically trying to figure out how to get the computer to go into a suspend state...

blum

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From: Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 77

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Re: Dell d600 lid button freezes system

I have c600, and I used to have some kind of the same problem with it. I had acpi, and it had difficulties to suspend to RAM and to HDD... there were always problems doing this kind of things. But i reconpiled mu kernel (2.6.10 rc1) with apm support, and dissabled acpi. Now all of this (standby, suspend, etc) is working just fine. When I close the lid, tc PC get asleep.. somekind of suspend to RAM, ot god-knows-where. When I open it, it wakes up... And all of the function buttons are working too... maybe just apm is "native" for this kind of systems.

good luck

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