On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 21:22 -0500, Kevin Valko wrote: > Here's my problem, openSUSE 10.3 will not suspend my laptop when I close the > lid. But if I issue an "echo mem > /sys/power/state", it suspends perfectly. > > This seems to be an issue I run into with openSUSE that gets worse with each > successive version. Having used four different laptops since 9.3, all of > which are capable of suspending in linux, I have had to work harder and > harder to make suspend work on a laptop that will normally suspend (ie. in > other distros). In the past, I would simply use ACPI scripts to suspend on > lid close, then I had to start working around the "improved" infrastructure, > hacking scripts etc. With 10.3, I'm at a loss. s2ram won't suspend > regardless of the settings I use, and even disabling all of the scripts > in /usr/lib/pm-utils doesn't help. I close my lid in KDE and it doesn't > suspend, when I open it back up, there's an error message about being unable > to suspend. > > I can appreciate the effort the devs put into making suspend work for laptops > that may not otherwise suspend well, but it's frustrating when you know your > laptop suspends well, but openSUSE prevents it, and you can't find > why. /var/log/pm-suspend.log doesn't help, either. It seems like it suspended > correctly. Furthermore, I know from participation in the forums that users > with 10.3 have found suspend to be broken, although it worked in 10.2. We > try and coach them, but there's only so much we can do... ;) > > What's the relation between kpowersave and s2ram/pm-utils ? Were there any > major changes in 10.3 that could have broken the way the built-in suspend > infrastructure works? And can I disable openSUSE from intercepting acpi > calls, and just go back to running a script on lid close? Making matters > worse, *buntu suspends properly when I close my lid, so I'm not sure what > we've done differently. > > Anyways, just wondering if there's any documentation on this kind of thing. > I've worked through the scripts, and gone through the wiki page etc., and > it's really little help. > > So, help ? > > If I'm missing something obvious, I'll gladly accept a slap to the head. But > this is becoming frustrating. My laptop has succeeded with >16 days of > uptime since my last boot, by frequently suspending via echo mem > ... at > least 4 times a day, so stability is not an issue, then what do I need to do > to get it working "natively" ? > > Thanks in advance, > KV
Not sure if this is the answer, as I haven't played around with suspend. But I was just browsing around and noticed that in PowerManagement "When Suspend Button is pressed" is set to "do nothing." Maybe you need to enable it? -- ---Bryen--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
