Comment 34 for bug 986724

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Marcin Bojko (marcinbojko) wrote : Re: [Bug 986724] Re: Lid state changes not detected on Samsung NP900X3B

Can you give us a hint with 'uname -a'?
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W dniu 2012-09-13 00:03, alistair pisze:
> I installed OpenSUSE 12.2 on this machine as soon as it became final.
>
> Since then, I have booted into SuSE and back into W7, suspended and
> resumed on both OSes many times, and have had no problems.
>
> In fact, everything* but the "toys" (ambient light sensor and keyboard
> illumination) works perfectly. (Make sure you configure your trackpad
> in "System Settings"!)
>
> By default, KDE plays a little jingle just before it shuts down on
> suspend. This is normally really annoying, but in this case, it is
> quite handy, because both Ubuntu and W7 suspend silently, and on this
> computer, which is normally silent in use and has no external LEDs,
> there is no way to tell whether or not it has suspended, apart from
> pinging it from another machine on the LAN.
>
> So, maybe this muddies the waters. Is the problem solved in the SuSE
> kernel, or is it a problem with Ubuntu at a higher level?
>
> A
>
> * Lid open is not detected; I have to press the power button to get the
> machine to resume. However, I cannot recall any distro *ever* detecting
> lid open on any post-APM laptop I have owned, and W7 sometimes fails to,
> so I cannot really blame OpenSUSE for this.
>