Breezy Suspend/Resume working finally

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-09-17, Shannon McMackin <mcmackin at earthlink.net> wrote:

>>>>I've been trying to figure out how to get suspend to work on my
>>>>Dell I5000 -- is there an ACPI HOWTO somewhere?
>>>
>>>You _probably_ just need to edit /etc/default/acpi-support and uncomment
>>>ACPI_SLEEP=3Dtrue
>>>
>>>sleep is disabled by default for some reason.
>> 
>> I'd like to get suspend to work first.
>> 
>> When I cose the cover, the acpid cpu usage jumps to 20% and it
>> hammers on the disk continuously until I kill acpid.  The
>> acpid log fills up with messages like this:
>> 
[...]

> The default lid function, as it would seem under breezy, is to
> blank the screen and lock it with a screensaver.

That must be broken.  I can't believe that burning up 20% of
the availabe CPU by spewing log messages as fast as they can be
written to disk is what's supposed to happen.

> If you change the way the lid action functions, for example:
>
> /etc/acpi/events/lidbtn
>
>> # /etc/acpi/events/lidbtn
>> # Called when the user closes or opens the lid
>> 
>> event=button[ /]lid
>> action=/etc/acpi/lid.sh
>
> calls /etc/acpi/lid.sh
>
> Change that script to call sleep.sh and it should suspend to RAM on lid
> closure.
>
> Try running sleep.sh and see what happens.  Any mods to
> /etc/default/acpi-support should allow suspend to RAM to
> function.

Thanks. I'll give it a try...

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