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Subject: Re: Problem with lid on Dell D400
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"Spil Oss" <spil.oss@googlemail.com> writes:

> On a Dell D400 notebook (Pentium-M 1.4GHz, Intel 855GM, ICH4M) running
> FreeBSD 7.0 #0
>
> Closing the lid switches off the display, opening the lid does not
> switch the display back on. Very annoying. The machine is fully
> functional otherwise (accessed via ssh).

It sounds like the behaviour I experienced on the Dell Latitude D610.

I wrote about my solution here:
http://borderworlds.dk/blog/20071027-00.html

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Christian Laursen