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Post subject: How to recover from enabling standby mode in KDE
 Posted: Apr 28, 2008 - 04:16 PM
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Joined: Dec 22, 2007
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Location: Prince Edward County, ON
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I was playing with standby mode feature for my laptop this morning and bingo I ended up with the computer shutting done almost instantly. I reboot by pressing the power on button (this seems the only way I get the computer to reboot) everything is fine until KDE GUI comes up and two seconds later the screen shuts down and nothing works. I did a kernel upgrade and a du last night. That went well and I do not believe it is related to this. I know I have done a stupid so how do I get out of this mess?
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Post subject: RE: How to recover from enabling standby mode in KDE
Posted: Apr 28, 2008 - 05:01 PM
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I have just tested on my machine (Dell M1330, intel graphics) and pressing the power button when in suspend mode resumes it with no problems. Unfortunately suspend/hibernate in linux can be flakey with some hardware, especially binary blobs like the ATI/Nvidia drivers and wireless through Ndiswrapper. What hardware do you have?
By default closing the laptop lid should enter suspend mode, and opening it again will resume. If you entered suspend some other way (e.g. the KPowersave tool), you should still be able to resume by closing then opening the laptop lid. You may want to try this method to make sure it's not just a weird power button mapping thing? :S
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I forgot to note that when suspended I have to press the power button for slightly longer than I normally do for a cold boot, but not long enough that it forces a power-off... I don't know if that helps you at all.
You may also want to check your BIOS, by default I have to hold the power button for however long to force a hard power-off, but some BIOS's at least have an option to disable the timer, so just a tap would do it. That would conflict with the resume signal. |
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Post subject: RE: How to recover from enabling standby mode in KDE
Posted: Apr 28, 2008 - 08:34 PM
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Keffin
I was playing with the settings in I think Kcontrol Centre, hit the apply button and the next thing I know the screen went black and nothing works. Somehow I have to rearrange the settings without using the KDEGUI because I see it for 5 seconds before the screen is blacked out. Everything works fine except lid closing before I screwed around with it.
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Post subject: RE: How to recover from enabling standby mode in KDE
Posted: Apr 28, 2008 - 09:43 PM
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It's either the gfx card (suspend to RAM works great with intel 945 and nvidia here) or a service you keep running. But I suspect it's the gfx card, I know the behaviour you describe from older gfx cards or older xorg versions (I don't know what was the cause and I can't remember the box).
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Posted: Apr 28, 2008 - 10:51 PM
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Hubi
I have an old ATi Radeon Mobility 9100IGP on a Toshiba Satellite A70 with xorg 1.3.0 Not much works with this card and is a constant source of aggravation. I cannot get it to work any of the upgrades from Sid and I keep using the software from Testing in order to have a screen. The current issue is the mouse pointer freezes once init 5 starts.
I solved my problem by going into Flubox and adjusting Kcontrol setting from there. I was amazed that this work. I currently have all power features disabled until I figure what to do next.
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Posted: Apr 29, 2008 - 06:11 AM
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Joined: Feb 24, 2007
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Location: Berlin, Germany
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Hi Geo,
I would think that your video driver is the culprit. On my former HP i never figuered out to suspend with the radeon driver. I switched to vesa, which was okay for me not having any resource-hungry game or compiz-stuff in my mind.
Just apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-vesa and then edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and replace radeon or ati with vesa.
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