Xorg not functional after closing laptop lid.

Question

Hi all!
Recently I've bought a monitor and I wanted to use my laptop more like a pc. But when I close the lid my both my screens go black. I'd like to use my computer with the lid closed normally.
Also, when I open the lid back I still have black screen only, both on laptop and monitor.
When I go to other terminal (ctrl+alt+F1..6) everything is fine on both screens. When I press alt+f7 and go back I have a black screen again.
I've looked at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acpid and then looked at /etc/acpi/handler.sh, but it seems that I have no action assigned at lid closure so it should do nothing.
Here is the mentioned file:
#!/bin/sh
# Default acpi script that takes an entry for all actions
minspeed=`cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq`
maxspeed=`cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq`
setspeed="/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed"
set $*
case "$1" in
button/power)
echo "PowerButton pressed!">/dev/tty5
case "$2" in
PBTN|PWRF) logger "PowerButton pressed: $2" ;;
*) logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
esac
button/sleep)
case "$2" in
SLPB) echo -n mem >/sys/power/state ;;
*) logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
esac
ac_adapter)
case "$2" in
AC|ACAD|ADP0)
case "$4" in
00000000)
echo -n $minspeed >$setspeed
#/etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode start
00000001)
echo -n $maxspeed >$setspeed
#/etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode stop
esac
*) logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
esac
battery)
case "$2" in
BAT0)
case "$4" in
00000000) echo "offline" >/dev/tty5
00000001) echo "online" >/dev/tty5
esac
CPU0)
*) logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
esac
button/lid)
case "$3" in
close)
echo "LID closed!">/dev/tty5
open)
echo "LID opened!">/dev/tty5
esac
logger "ACPI group/action undefined: $1 / $2"
esac
As you can see on the bottom I do not have anything assigned to lid action.
Any thoughts?
cheers,
kajman

Answer 1

I'm using xfce4.
Here's my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-monitor.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
Option "BlankTime" "0"
Option "StandbyTime" "0"
Option "SuspendTime" "0"
Option "OffTime" "0"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "radeon" #Choose the driver used for this monitor
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0" #Collapse Monitor and Device section to Screen section
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24 #Choose the depth (16||24)
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1366x768_60.00" #Choose the resolution
Virtual 1920 1080
EndSubSection
EndSection
But i think that this configuration may be irrevelant.
When I connect my external monitor I always type
xrandr --auto
When unplugging the monitor I also type the same command.
Also I have turned my laptop's screen off (using settings/screen I've unchecked "use this output").
Last edited by kajman (2012-02-15 17:42:43)