Some notebooks seem to suspend OK from a virtual terminal, but not from X-windows. I had that problem and found a solution. The setup here is a Gateway Solo3350 with a Phoenix NoteBIOS 4.0 release 6.0 (serial 25.04). This trick may apply also to other notebooks using that same BIOS.
I assume that you already have APM set up correctly so that you can suspend successfully from, e.g., virtual terminal #1. Be sure that you have installed the debian package "console-tools". It contains the two little utilities: fgconsole and chvt. If an unprivileged user is to suspend the notebook, these two files must be made suid root. (I don't think that is much of a security risk on a notebook.) Now add the following at the very beginning of /etc/apmd_proxy, so that the start of that file should look like this: ------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh XVT=7 if [ -x fgconsole -a -x chvt ]; then [ $(fgconsole) -eq $XVT ] && chvt $XVT fi # The four previous lines allow "suspend" from Xwindows. # XVT should be set to the virtual console from which X is run. # Files /usr/bin/fgconsole and /usr/bin/chvt must be # set suid root if a general user is to use suspend. # These four lines must be AT THE START of /etc/apmd_proxy. # The BIOS evidently stops the display asynchronously, so # we must get there first. ----------------------------------------------------------------- What it does is to "change" to the virtual terminal that X-windows is using, typically #7, just before the BIOS shuts the display down. Timing seems be crucial. It DOES NOT WORK to put this functionality in /etc/apm/event.d . That is too late. It is very nice to just close the lid on your kde desktop and then have it right there when you open it again. :-) -- Oliver Johns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> San Francisco, California USA GPG KeyID=A2ACE692 GPG Fingerprint=BE4A C1B8 EB0D 8FD9 737D CE4A 1E56 BF9B A2AC E692 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
