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golfadas

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Registered: 2008-12-05

Posts: 22

(gnome) Power Management issue

Hello arch people, I've been running arch on my vaio fz-11z for almost a week now, and there are two things that i just cant solve...

1º My gnome power management doesn't let me choose any option.. besides the default option.. I cant put my computer to sleep after a couple of time neither  turn off the screen (thou the screen turns off after a LOT of time..)

2º I cant pm-suspend, when I press the power button the pc doesn't respond and I have force shut-down it.

I belive that the anser to my problems should be somewhere out there in the web... but i just cant find it... Can somebody help me??

by the way these are my daemons:

cpufreq syslog-ng hal !network netfs crond alsa wicd dbus

and these are my modules:
acpi_cpufreq cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave sky2 iwl3945 snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore

Odysseus

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Registered: 2009-02-15

Posts: 141

Re: (gnome) Power Management issue

I know that if gnome is started by itself, gnome won't let me do hardly anything power related.

If I login via GDM though, all the usual options are present.  Dunno why this is though.

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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,549

Re: (gnome) Power Management issue

Did you read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cat … _(English) ?
Especially http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pm-utils ?
For example, make sure your users are in the power group.

Last edited by Ranguvar (2009-02-19 03:45:34)

golfadas

Member

Registered: 2008-12-05

Posts: 22

Re: (gnome) Power Management issue

Did you read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cat … _(English) ?
Especially http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pm-utils ?
For example, make sure your users are in the power group.

I,m in the power group.. and i configured pm-utils through that tuturial...

I know that if gnome is started by itself, gnome won't let me do hardly anything power related.

If I login via GDM though, all the usual options are present.  Dunno why this is though.

hum.. i login via console and autostart X.. I dont want to use GDM..

Thank you guys
Any more ideas?

Last edited by golfadas (2009-02-19 10:49:39)

golfadas

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Registered: 2008-12-05

Posts: 22

Re: (gnome) Power Management issue

Did you read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cat … _(English) ?
Especially http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pm-utils ?
For example, make sure your users are in the power group.

now that I think about it, I have to use sudo to shutdown the pc.. thou i'm the power group..  is this normal?

jelly

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 714

Re: (gnome) Power Management issue

maybe policykit problem?
i fixed or maybe used a work around fix to just modify the power settings with policykit. Just like this

  sudo polkit-action --set-defaults-any org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop yes

read

man polkit-action

for more details

Last edited by jelly (2009-02-19 20:38:09)

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golfadas

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Registered: 2008-12-05

Posts: 22

Re: (gnome) Power Management issue

maybe policykit problem?
i fixed or maybe used a work around fix to just modify the power settings with policykit. Just like this

  sudo polkit-action --set-defaults-any org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop yes

read

man polkit-action

for more details

thank you, but it didn't work..

Is there a command/way to turn off the screen?