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dextrose

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hibernate/suspend make 5 beeps [ Solved ]

Hi.

I've got powertop, gnome-power-saver, acpi and acpid installed but when I try to go ahead and do a suspend or hibernate, the pc speaker shouts 5 beeps straight in a row.

Any Idea?

Best Regards,
Jorge.

Last edited by dextrose (2008-09-08 09:38:20)

kjon

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From: Temuco, Chile

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Re: hibernate/suspend make 5 beeps [ Solved ]

Have a look at your bios manofacturer (It's an ami? isn't it?). Then google for bios beep codes. According to my ignorance, five short beeps means 'Process failure'. In other words, as you can see, something is going wrong with hibernation and suspension. Do you own a laptop? my recommendation, have a look at how pm-utils works and create a script to remove certain modules at sleep stage. Why? because some modules (in particular ndiswrapper and some wireless card drivers, or some acpi controllers) tend to mess the normal sleep process.

I hope this helps

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dextrose

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Re: hibernate/suspend make 5 beeps [ Solved ]

no bios is phoenix and curious but the beeps aren't from the old "pc speaker"
the beeps are more "modern-like" they don't seem to be from the bios

pelle.k

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Re: hibernate/suspend make 5 beeps [ Solved ]

It's gnome-power-manager. It does that when it wants to notify you about a problem. There should be a little "notification box" coming from your tray/notification icon area.

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dextrose

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Re: hibernate/suspend make 5 beeps [ Solved ]

true,
after reinstalling the package, it's good..

[ SOLVED ]

tigrmesh

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Re: hibernate/suspend make 5 beeps [ Solved ]

I'm glad you solved this.  To mark this thread as solved, edit your first post.