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ioky

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Registered: 2008-06-19

Posts: 93

Pm-utiles problems along with some little things

I just install Arch Linux into my Toshiba Portege M100 Laptop. I get pretty much everything working, even the FN key. And Arch runs amazingly fast on this old machine.

However, I do encounter two problems. One of them is the suspend/hibernate problem. My laptop seem able to do both, however, it can not come back to my desktop. It seems like stop after they load everything back, and give me a black screen. There is nothing I can do but hold the power buttom to restart my computer.

The second problem is the gnome network-manager applet. I use it with xfce, but whenever I do a save session for futrue logins, the next time I logins in there is two of them, and the next next time I login there is like 3. and so furth. here is what I set for my autostart command with with Autostart applications under setting. "nm-applet --sm-disable"

This is not really a problem, but it kind of bothers me, and it is the action button applet. After I install a the arch linux Icon set, it becomes a little green man(I dislike that icon so much, haha) I would like it change back to the normal power button icon. which to me looks much nice. And for something even I change Icon set for the theme, it doesn't effect that action button applet.

At last, if you have any good suggestion that I make the laptop installation better, please let me know.

Thank you so much

Profjim

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-03-24

Posts: 658

Re: Pm-utiles problems along with some little things

For the problems hibernating/suspending, you'll probably have to specify a "quirk" with the suspend command. Read the pm-suspend docs and google "pm-suspend quirks". You may be able to find someone else's report of successfully using the same laptop with quirk such-and-such. Else it will take some trial and error to see what works.

For your second question: I think you're giving the right command in autostart. (Possible there should be a "&" at the end of it, but I don't think that's necessary.) You've got some problem with your saved session. To flush everything out, here's what I'd do. Completely uninstall network-manager. Log out, and log back in. Log out, saying don't save session. Log back in, Log out, saying save session. Log in and re-install network-manager. Now log out saving session again. Now test to see if your problem is fixed.

I bet that some of the steps I just described aren't necessary, but I'm not sure which ones.

Last edited by Profjim (2008-08-30 05:29:06)

ioky

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Registered: 2008-06-19

Posts: 93

Re: Pm-utiles problems along with some little things

Just a little Note: I try xubuntu on this laptop before I install Arch Linux, Just to see is everything is possible to work in Linux. And I am able to do suspend/hibernating. and resume. I just wonder how ubuntu do their suspend/hibernating, Just so I can get an idea, what might possibly go wrong. I am I am able to do suspend/hibernating just fine, the only problems is I am not able to resume. in suspend, it looks like it is working, but thing stop, right before I can see the Desktop. hibernating when resume do all the loading like saying take so and so second to load all the date, but it just stop right there after this message.

right now, reading about the "quirk" thing, hope I can get something out from these

Thank you so much for the help

ioky

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Registered: 2008-06-19

Posts: 93

Re: Pm-utiles problems along with some little things

After trying all this, I still have no luck to solve the resume problem. When I resume, there is a little thing blink a few time, but then nothing happen, the LCD screen's backlight is on. But it can't get into the Desktop

I have try everything like s2disk.... and scripts... and so. All of them wouldn't resume, I have no idea what goes wrong.

any idea?

Last edited by ioky (2008-08-30 22:42:55)