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SubjectRe: Test8 suspend fails if laptop lid closed.
A couple of us have seen the same thing under 2.4. I've found a hack
solution for my laptop, but need to investigate more. It certainly looks
like an ACPI problem from here.

Regards,

Nigel

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 19:22, Rob Landley wrote:
> Interesting. Suspend to disk (echo -n disk > /sys/power/state) works just
> fine as long as I keep the laptop open until it powers down. (I timed it, it
> takes 35 seconds by the way. Over half of this is "freeing memory" without
> the hard drive light actually going...)
>
> If I close the lid while it's busy suspend, it won't. It'll almost suspend,
> but the CPU power will stay on, the fan will stay running, and the backlight
> will stay on even though the screen is otherwise black. Only thing to do
> then is hold the power button down for ten seconds until it fully powers off,
> then reboot it.
>
> It works reliably so far if I leave the lid open, and fails reliably with the
> lid closed before it's actually done suspending. This is on a thinkpad
> iSeries 1200 something. (Serial number starting with 1171 6xu, from which
> the model number can be googled for if it matters...)
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Rob
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