Kubuntu-KDE4 8.04 missing suspend/hibernate on inspiron 9400

[Charlie Zender]

>> My inspiron 9400 has a fresh install of Kubuntu-KDE4 8.04.
>> The "exit" and "logout" buttons in the taskbar no longer
>> offer "suspend" and "hibernate" as options.
>> They were (semi-working) options on the gutsy distribution previously
>> installed on this machine.
>> Where did they go? How do I get them back?

> On my Dell Inspiron 6400 those buttons disappeared when I installed
> XGL with Compiz. Removing XGL made Compiz faster and restored the
> buttons. I have the ATI x1400 graphics card, which is known
> problematic, by the way, and I'm running the fglrx drivers.

Thanks. Your observations also hold true for my system which has
an nvidia card. I removed xserver-xgl and the "suspend" and
"hibernate" buttons re-appeared.

Charlie
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