dell latitude x300 ubuntu karmic and lid problem

I had a problem with my lid events which freezed my dell latitude x300, it's a problem of the video driver used by karmic and it could be solved by adding  nomodeset as a kernel option.

grep nomode /boot/grub/menu.lst

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-22-generic root=/dev/sda6 ro nomodeset #init=/bin/bash

and shrinking the script used when lid is closed: 

 /etc/acpi/lid.sh 

#!/bin/bash
[ -x /etc/acpi/local/lid.sh.pre ] && /etc/acpi/local/lid.sh.pre
[ -x /etc/acpi/local/lid.sh.post ] && /etc/acpi/local/lid.sh.post
~

while using the following as /etc/acpi/local/lid.sh.pre

#!/bin/sh

if grep -q open /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/state

  then /usr/sbin/vbetool dpms on

  else /usr/sbin/vbetool dpms off

fi

Moreover you'll notice that your mouse is not visible when opening the lid back 

To get rid of this last problem you can: 

• wether switch between desktops 
• or add the following to the  /etc/X11/xorg.conf :

Section "Device" Option "HWCursor" "False"

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ciao alex 

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