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Old 7th November 2008
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Default Laptop lid problem

I notice a strange thing, when ever I close the lid of my laptop and open it up back display don't turn on, the only way I was able to find to turn it on again was to switch back to console mode (Ctrl - Alt- F1) and then back to X (Ctrl- Alt - F9). Has any one noticed this before and is there a fix for this.

I tried this in two Dell Laptops
Latitude D420
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Try:

# kldload acpi_video
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Try:

# kldload acpi_video
didn't work
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It could be Xorg drivers fault after all.
What driver are you using?
I had same experience with intel driver when DRI was disabled.
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Try this command with superuser priviledge:

#sysctl hw.acpi.reset_video=1

, close and open the lid again.
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Try this command with superuser priviledge:

#sysctl hw.acpi.reset_video=1

, close and open the lid again.
Tried this
Code:
# sysctl hw.acpi.reset_video=1
hw.acpi.reset_video: 0 -> 1
#
No luck

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It could be Xorg drivers fault after all.
What driver are you using?
I had same experience with intel driver when DRI was disabled.
I'm also using intel driver.
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I'm also using intel driver.
Then you have same problem like me (it is xf86-video-intel bug)
enable DRI if it is not enabled.(load drm and i915 module, and make sure that glxinfo reports direct rendering is enabled)

If that doesnt help switch to xf86-video-i810.
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Then you have same problem like me (it is xf86-video-intel bug)
enable DRI if it is not enabled.(load drm and i915 module, and make sure that glxinfo reports direct rendering is enabled)

If that doesnt help switch to xf86-video-i810.
you sure switching to xf86-video-i810 will solve the problem? DRI and i915 are already enabled. How do I make sure that glxinfo reports direct rendering is enabled?

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you sure switching to xf86-video-i810 will solve the problem?
At least It solved it for me, but maybe i810 will not work at all with new Xorg server (>1.5)
i810 is marked as broken, it does not build with newest libdrm so portdowngrade libdrm to 2.3.0 and after that remove BROKEN from i810 port Makefile.

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How do I make sure that glxinfo reports direct rendering is enabled?
In glxinfo ouptut (in first several lines) it should be displayed Yes.

I should really check is this intel bug fixed in newer versions, but I currently dont care ....
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To me this seems to be a problem with Dell H/W rather then bug in intel driver. I tried this in Acer laptop with Intel driver worked like charm. Then trien on different Dell dimension laptop with nvidia (nv) driver, problem was there. Infact this time I tried even without installing X, and it was even worst.

While X is running, I was able to turn the display on by switching to TTy 1 and back to X. But when X is not running only way to turn the display on again is to reboot the system .

So I've tried this in 2 different Dell H/W, all of them having this problem and tried on one Acer H/W worked without problem.

So any one conscedring to purchase Dell Laptop for BSD might wanna conscider this.
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To me this seems to be a problem with Dell H/W rather then bug in intel driver. I tried this in Acer laptop with Intel driver worked like charm. Then trien on different Dell dimension laptop with nvidia (nv) driver, problem was there. Infact this time I tried even without installing X, and it was even worst.
It is xf86-video-intel bug, you can not compare nvidia(nv) driver with intel driver. Reasons why it work on some intel cards and on some it does not is because xf86-video-intel driver supports some intel cards better than others.

It is not Dell/HP/Toshiba/IBM etc. fault.
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