Breezy Colony 4, Laptop screen is dim

Shannon McMackin mcmackin at earthlink.net
Thu Sep 8 03:38:35 UTC 2005


Thomas Kaiser (ubuntu) wrote:
> Jimmie Houchin wrote:
> 
>> Once I logged in I started playing with some of the fn function keys on
>> my laptop. This is my first laptop so I am clueless about these fn
>> function keys.
>>  
>>
> I forgott to tell you that just hitting the powerkey should savely
> shoutdown your Laptop in Windoz and Linux.
> 
> Regards, Thomas
> 
Thomas,

If you modify your /etc/default/acpi-support, Fn+F4 should definitely
put it to sleep.

> # Uncomment the next line to enable ACPI suspend to RAM
> ACPI_SLEEP=true

That will be a good start.  ibm_acpi should also be running, check lsmod.

Lastly, you may want to unload USB and your network modules as follows:

> # Add modules to this list to have them removed before suspend and reloaded
> # on resume. It should look something like MODULES="e1000 ipw2100"
> MODULES="ath_pci e1000 ehci_hcd uhci_hcd"

Yours may be different, but I know USB plays games with suspend and
hibernate.

FWIW, mine worked on Breezy "out-of-the-box" and I have a T41.

Shannon





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