Acer Laptop gos into sleep mode-

Charlie Luna charlieluna1974 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 28 15:50:57 UTC 2013


wow, that's a better explanation than what i gave! kudos!


On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 28 November 2013 02:48, John Schroer <ka8grh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have an Acer 4730Z laptop running Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit .
> > When I leave the laptop running for a meal, it goes into sleep mode.
>  When I
> > return to the laptop, I press any keyto wake it up.  However, all it
> gives
> > me is a blank screen, and i am forced tomdos physical power dwn.
> > I've looked into the BIOS on bootup, but there are no power setting thre.
> > What am I doing wrong, or what do I need to solve this issue.
>
> There are several relevant settings here.  First in System Settings >
> Brightness and Lock you can set whether the display should switch off
> after a defined period of inactivity and whether you need to enter
> your password to get it back (the Lock setting).  Additionally there
> you can specify whether you need to enter your password on a restart
> after Suspend (that is the computer sleeping, which is not the same as
> the turning the screen off).  Then in System Settings > Power you can
> set whether the machine should suspend after a period of inactivity.
>
> From your description it sounds as if it is suspending (usually there
> is a blinking led to indicate this) but is not correctly recovering
> from the suspend.
>
> Colin
>
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