On 10 October 2011 13:45, James Morrissey <morrissey.jam...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone could help me in getting my suspend-on-lid-close > to work on my Thinkpad x121e. > > This is a new piece of hardware and there doesn't appear to be much on the > web for solving it the problem. > > When i close the lid, the machine seems to suspend, but when i open it i am > met with a blank screen and can do nothing other than hard power down. I > have noticed, however, that when i have my machine plugged into an external > monitor, i can close the lid, observe the suspend and then open the lid to > get a password login screen. > > So it seems that the suspend is working but that the monitor doesn't come > back to life when i open the lid. Having an external monitor plugged in > seems to wake the monitor up and so give me the login screen. > > This makes me think that this might not be too hard to solve. i don't > really understand a lot of the hardware stuff but think that there might be > a simple way to make sure that the screen triggers when i open the lid (or > make the machine think that there is an external monitor plugged in). I am > guessing that there is just a switch that i need to stick to 'on'. > > Someone has suggested adding nomodeset to the grub kernel parameters, but i > am not sure how to do this or what other effects of doing it might be. > > The thinkpad x121e is great as a portable machine. Getting this to work > would vastly increase its portability. > > Any suggestions? > > I had a similar problem with a Thinkpad Edge 11 that I bought the other week as an emergency replacement for my Dell XPS. The solution for that was to change sata-mode from AHCI to compatibility in the BIOS, which works *most* but not all of the time. There are also boot args which I can't find online right now and that I haven't tried. I would be interested to know how you're finding Ubuntu on it as it's not wholly satisfactory to me. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood "post-apocalyptic allen keys"
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