Comment 11 for bug 49521

The same behavior is exhibited by Hardy 8.04 on my Thinkpad x41. That is, when I close and then open the lid the screen stays black. Only restarting xserver or rebooting does anything.

Changing the Power Management setting for 'When laptop is closed' to suspend does actually put the machine into suspend. However, coming out of suspend is slower than just restarting xserver.

Changing the Power Management setting for 'When laptop is closed' to 'do nothing' does not work. Nor does 'blank screen' or 'hibernate' do anything to fix this.