• Registered: 2010-08-10
  • Posts: 5

Topic: Lid switch on Samsung N150-11 causes Suspend only every other time

Installing Statler 10a2 AMD64 XFCE4 on a Samsung N150-11 went well

One thing that is not working well, though, is Suspend on lid close -- it works perfectly every other time the lid is closed; the other times it turns off the backlight but does not suspend! This is a safety issue: packing a running netbook could lead to overheating.

The xfce4-power-manager seems to be doing its job. I suspect the issue is in the kernel or BIOS. If I look at /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/state I see that it reports closed every other time the lid is open.

Do you know of any quirk or setting I can make to fix this?

Searching the web I have found several references to this problem, some quite old; most of them refer to ACPI scripts for workarounds, but ACPI is not installed on my system, just HAL, pm, and samsung-tools.

Here are a few relevant links

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=406250
http://ejahn.net/Members/eric/stories/t61_etch

Have others seen this problem? Have you found a workaround?

Thanks!

-- e

  • Registered: 2010-08-10
  • Posts: 5

Re: Lid switch on Samsung N150-11 causes Suspend only every other time

I was hoping the 2.6.32-20 linux-kernel recently released to squeeze might solve the problem, especially since -19 changelog included "Add samsung-laptop driver." But, the problem persists.

I have filed a debian bug report.

  • Registered: 2010-10-23
  • Posts: 3

Re: Lid switch on Samsung N150-11 causes Suspend only every other time

Hi, sorry to being this back to life but I'm about to install #! on this exact netbook, does anyone know how to help dougie? As I will probably need this help too!