laptop spontaneously wakes up from suspend to RAM while inside case!

[Chris Jones]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> With FC5, completely up to date on a Dell D800 Latitude, I have
> experienced this bad problem.  I do ACPI suspend with the FN-Esc key,
> which triggers the suspend to ram.  The system powers down and if I do
> not move the computer, then it stays suspended.  The power LED slowly
> flashes, the system cools down.   However, if I carry it around inside
> the case, for some reason it turns on and (of course) gets really
> really hot.
> 
> If you can tell me how to bug shoot this, I will appreciate it.  Is it
> a hardware or software problem?
> I'm reading the acpi_howto
> (http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/acpi/acpi_howto.txt) but it does not
> speak to this kind of trouble.
> 
> Any pointers?

What happens if you close the laptop without suspending (FN-Esc) - 
Depending on how your session is configured it might suspend itself 
(i.e. if acpi notices your lid button event) ? What happens if you 
suspend the machine with FN-Esc, and then close the lid (but don't put 
it back in your case). Does it come back to life ?

If the machine stays asleep with the lid closed, but then randomly comes 
back to life latter on in your case, maybe you lid button is flaky and 
moving around causes false lid-opening events ?

Chris

> 
> --
> Paul E. Johnson
> Professor, Political Science
> 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
> University of Kansas
> 


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