Freeze on Lid close
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Jan 31 14:48:25 UTC 2008
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
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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