Here it is. As far as I can tell, there's some kind of event that's triggered after the lid is closed that lights up the screen. If I turn the screen off using xset with a delay (something like "sleep 5; xset dpms force off") and close the screen before the delay is up, it stays off.
** Attachment added: "gpm.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/12624683/gpm.log -- [hardy] screen lights up when lid is closed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187524 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs