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andermic

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Registered: 2008-04-11

Posts: 2

pm-suspend quirks works - not gnome power manager

I installed Arch on my Thinkpad R61 once before, but the suspend 2 ram stuff didn't work. Well, I installed again with the goal of figuring it out, and I did. If I add the line

DISPLAY_QUIRK_S3_BIOS="true"
to /etc/pm/config.d/config

Then type sudo pm-suspend in the console and my computer gracefully goes to sleep and wakes up exactly how it should. However if I try to make my computer sleep through any other method, such as closing the lid or pressing the sleep button (Fn+F4) or using the gnome power icon, I just get the screen saver login window and when I return to the main desktop I see "Sleep Problem' popup from the gnome power icon. I'm wondering if there is another file I need to configure to make it all work. I'm really close and this is the last issue I have to solve to have a perfectly working arch install on my laptop, which would make me happy!

andermic

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Registered: 2008-04-11

Posts: 2

Re: pm-suspend quirks works - not gnome power manager

Ok, so I restarted and now everything works the way it should. Yay.

Berseker

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From: Near Lecco, Italy

Registered: 2008-04-24

Posts: 258

Re: pm-suspend quirks works - not gnome power manager

same problem here..
Acer 5920G T7300, Nvidia 8600GT, Intel 3945abg wifi card..running standard 2.6.25-ARCH from testing
if I call "sudo pm-suspend" from the console, it works without problems
if I try to suspend from the gnome-power-manager icon, it get me to the screen saver, and the "Sleep Problem" message popups.

I have only installed pm-utils, and made the "resume=/path/to/swap" modify in grub's menu.lst .. no other configs or modifications made by me..

edit I've just tried hibernate (sudo pm-hibernate) and it works fine too.. obviously it doesn't work by the gnome-power-manager icon.

Last edited by Berseker (2008-05-13 11:30:52)

uastasi

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From: Salento - Italy

Registered: 2007-11-27

Posts: 247

Re: pm-suspend quirks works - not gnome power manager

Did you add your user to 'power' group?

# gpasswd -a <username> power

then logout and login

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Berseker

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From: Near Lecco, Italy

Registered: 2008-04-24

Posts: 258

Re: pm-suspend quirks works - not gnome power manager

perfect! now everything works!!

ps
oh è il secondo problema che mi risolve un italiano sulla board internazionale.. grazie mille!

scubanator87

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Registered: 2008-08-11

Posts: 26

Re: pm-suspend quirks works - not gnome power manager

I found this thread searching because i was having the same issue, adding myself to the power group fixed it.

Im going to add that to the wiki for pm-utils since it seems to be a crucial piece of info :-D