On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:45:27 +1200 Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alan, > > I also made the Great Migration from Feisty to Etch with xfce > to find greater stability and ease of use. > > Etch has an automatic powerdown with an adjustable time-delay > (somewhere - I'm still adjusting from gnome), and a 'suspend' option > at login. Ive seen the automatic power options in Gnome. I don't know yet if they work. I've got the suspend option appearing on the Actions menu - but it doesn't do anything! > > I've been pleasantly surprised to have to revive via password > a number of times. Yeah, it worked perfectly for me in Ubuntu Dapper, so I know that it *will* work. > > From > > http://www.rdegraaf.nl/index.asp?sND_ID=291639 > > At the moment of writing, hibernate works, and is placed on > the s2disk whitelist. In contrast, s2ram is not whitelisted. > Checking 's2ram --force' results in a suspend to memory, but > some things did not restore correctly such as network, etc. > However, /etc/acpi/sleep.sh does work for me. Test it for > yourself from the commandline: > > # /etc/acpi/sleep.sh > .. and No such script in my machine. I have the laptop-mode-tools package installed as well as acpitool. No such packageas acpi-support. The hot key mentioned below does nothing. I'm quite keen to move to Etch, but this is a right royal PITA! Thanks for help. I'll have a look at the other links that you mention. Cheers, Alan > > http://thpinfo.com/2006/docs/debian-linux-macbook-headphone-after-suspend.html > > Interesting. > > http://blog.mondragon.cc/pages/tp-t42 > > suggests installing the 'acpi-support' package. apt-get reccomends > also installing 'laptop-mode-tools' .. > > Apparently there is a 'sleep' hot-key (Fn+Esc), see > > http://www-spht.cea.fr/en/Images/Pisp/jbouttier/d420-linux.php > > Another way is to add a kernel option .. > > http://www.student.tue.nl/Q/j.f.berndsen/debian/ > > Regards, > > Adam Bogacki, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 427 486 206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
