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---

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