This bug affects me also, on a Dell Latitude D820 running Jaunty. I had the same problem in Karmic, but this plus other bugs prompted me to return to Jaunty for now.
When I was using Karmic, I tried Michal's suggestion: if [ `CheckPolicy` == 0 ]; then exit; fi but that caused my external monitor on my port replicator to blank as well. That's definitely not the desired behavior--I'd like the laptop display to blank and keep the external display enabled. Other potentially useful info: -In Jaunty, I have gnome-power-manager set to suspend when on battery when the lid is closed. It works well, consistently. In Karmic it sometimes failed. -I'm using Nvidia driver 180 (was using 185 in Karmic). -I have gnome-power-manager installed, but NOT gnome-screensaver. I've installed a real screensaver (xscreensaver). I tried enabling display power management in xscreensaver, and the screen blanked when the lid was closed. I'm not sure what the effect of this is on an external monitor. I don't think this worked in Karmic, though. However, xscreensaver power management doesn't seem as full-featured as gnome-power-manager, and I'm afraid to keep both enabled. -I am using Compiz. -Brian -- Closing laptop lid doesn't cause the screen to go blank https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/449188 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
