Suspending PC ?

[David Collins]

I have reduced the problem further - now I am just trying to suspend my PC
manually

In the BIOS I have -
      changed Suspend to RAM (STR) from <disabled> to <auto> (the only
other option)
      changed Keyboard Power On from <disabled> to <any key> (again, the
only other option)

After having no luck, and wondering if I was trying to do the impossible,
so I tried doing likewise using an installed Windows XP system on the PC.

Windows:
I choose Shutdown - then Standby, the screen powers down, followed by the
hard drive.
When I press a key (I chose the down arrow), the hard drive and screen
start up again, and the system resumes.

Xubuntu:
When I choose Suspend, the screen powers down, followed by the hard drive
(but a green light flashes on the hard drive) BUT when I press a key
(again, the down arrow), nothing happens.  If I then press the power button
on the PC, it boots up fresh.

Any ideas ?

Regards,
David Collins



                                                                           
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Antonio,

There is no 'laptops and power' in the menu - I guess because the system
detects that the PC is not a laptop ?

The acpid deamon is running, though ...

$ ps aux | grep 'acpid'
root        31  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   13:52   0:00 [kacpid]
root      4542  0.0  0.2   2260  1176 ?        Ss   13:52   0:00
/usr/sbin/acpid -c /etc/acpi/events -s /var/run/acpid.socket
107       4620  0.0  0.1   2100   884 ?        S    13:52   0:00
hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket
david     5503  0.0  0.1   2896   764 pts/0    R+   14:59   0:00 grep acpid

but there is no apmd deamon ..

$ ps aux | grep 'apmd'
david     5520  0.0  0.1   2896   768 pts/0    R+   15:00   0:00 grep apmd

Regards,
David Collins

 From: "Antonio Candito" <blindraven at gmail.com>
 Date: 08/18/2007 02:42PM

 check in system settings -> laptops and power -> ****  battery -> acpi
 config and that hibernate enabled.

 On 8/18/07, David Collins < dcolli22 at csc.com.au > wrote:
       Hello,

       I have a regular tower PC (ie. not a laptop) running xubuntu, and I
       want it to power-down the screen and hard-disk when it had been idle
       for a while - but haven't been able to get it to work.  Can someone
       help ?

       I have installed gnome-power-manager, and run
       gnome-power-preferences - and set 'Put computer to sleep when
       inactive for 1 minute' and 'Put display to sleep when inactive for 1
       minute'.  (I will make the time longer once it is working.)

       When I log in, gnome-power-manager is already running in the
       background ...
       $ ps aux | grep -i 'power'
       david     5238  0.1  1.9  45220  9844 ?        Ss   13:53   0:00
       gnome-power-manager --sm-config-prefix /gnome-power-manager-kRi81T/
       --sm-client-id 117f000001000118740612500000051650000 --screen 0

       Neither the screen nor the disk is powering down after a minute or
       more of inactivity.
       Is there anything else I have to do ?  Anything in the BIOS to set ?

       Regards,
       David Collins--
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