Dell Vostro 1310, Close lid, Freeze

Question

I just installed arch on my old Dell Vostro 1310.
It is a very fresh and simple install. The only packages I have installed are wget and sshd.
I.e I have no acpid running.
I have set HandleLidClose to ignore in logind.conf, but when I close the lid something happens and the laptop freezes.
ssh access also dies, and fans stop, so it is not just the screen.
What could be the issue here?
[EDIT]
Just noticed a strange workaround. If I have an active SSH connection to the machine, I can close the lid without problems.
If I close the ssh connection while the lid is closed, it is also still fine. But if I close it without any SSH connection, it freezes.
Last edited by inferred (2012-12-11 15:49:16)

Answer 1

I have c600, and I used to have some kind of the same problem with it. I had acpi, and it had difficulties to suspend to RAM and to HDD... there were always problems doing this kind of things. But i reconpiled mu kernel (2.6.10 rc1) with apm support, and dissabled acpi. Now all of this (standby, suspend, etc) is working just fine. When I close the lid, tc PC get asleep.. somekind of suspend to RAM, ot god-knows-where. When I open it, it wakes up... And all of the function buttons are working too... maybe just apm is "native" for this kind of systems.
good luck