Closing lid freezes laptop

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Closing the lid on my Dell Studio 15 which is running Ubuntu 10.04 freezes the screen. This is a new problem in Ubuntu 10.04 which did not exist in 9.10

I have tried playing with all the settings in System->Preferences->Screensaver but nothing seems to make any difference. (please note the Power Management settings are accessible from here so I have tried those too.)

I don't need hibernate or suspend. I just want to be able to close the lid, and then open it and still have a working laptop.

Is their a settings somewhere that will make Ubuntu ignore the lid closing?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 04 '11 at 06:36

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I solved this by changing to the closed source FLGRX driver.

answered Apr 04 '11 at 06:36

trampster

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 27 '10 at 12:34

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These settings are in System -> Preferences -> Power Management.

power management

answered Aug 27 '10 at 12:34

dv3500ea

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 19 '10 at 13:39

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gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/gnome-power-manager/buttons/lid_ac "nothing"

edited Nov 19 '10 at 13:39

Jorge Castro

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answered Nov 19 '10 at 13:37

Dante Ashton

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score 1 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 03 '16 at 20:59

Make sure there is no SD card inserted.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1478787 has 120,000 views of 980 responses - it is still possible that one of the solutions will work for you.

http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585765 is about the most useful bug report, although https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/528981 worked for me (mainline kernel 2.6.34 solution).

Closing lid freezes laptop

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