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solstice

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Registered: 2006-10-27

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Closing the lid does not suspend to ram

Hi;

I have installed archlinux on a HP Stream 11-r004nf netbook. Everything was fine except the wifi driver rtl8723be. I needed to use the one from the lwfinger github rtlwifi_new repo. never mind.

When I close the lid, the laptop does not suspend to ram. This happens in budgie (but in gnome too). I can see in the log of system-logind that the lid has been closed and opened.

When I choose in the menu to suspend, it works without problem.

I have tried to explicitly state HandleLidSwitch=suspend in /etc/system/logind.conf but that didn't change anything.

I don't know where to look now.

Slithery

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Re: Closing the lid does not suspend to ram

Gnome overrides the settings in logind.conf.

You can use Gnomes settings to enable suspend on lid close.

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solstice

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Re: Closing the lid does not suspend to ram

I don't remember havng seen it in the gnome settings center. There is one option for the power button but I don't see anything about the lid.

EDIT: So instead I used HandleLidSwitchDocked=suspend in /etc/systemd/logind.conf and it works.

I don't knwo why it thinks that my netbook is docked. It is not. It was once connected to an external monitor but not anymore.

EDIT2. It seems related to the hp-wmi kernel module which is buggy

Last edited by solstice (2017-02-01 17:37:11)