X-Server rebooting when closing laptop-lid

[Ian Chapman]

Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Each time i close the lid of the laptop, X reboots and i find my self
> after opening on the loginscreen again.
> 
> i found the following:
> 
> dmesg: video bus notify
> 
> messages: gnome-power-manager: Using DPMS to power off display, as the lid
> has been closed whilst been connected to a power supply (sorry for
> traduction, its original in german)
> 
> Any idea?

It's probably being caused by an ACPI generated event when you close the 
lid. Try stopping the acpid process and see if it still does it:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/acpid stop

If this service is not running though, you probably won't be able to 
poweroff by simply pressing the power button (if you use that method), 
so have a look in /etc/acpi at the config files to see if there's an 
event to handle the lid closing and comment it out.

Lastly, the events might be being handled directly by the 
gnome-power-manager, so check your settings for that. I'm not familiar 
enough with gnome to say where to look :)


-- 
Ian Chapman.