XBMC and suspend via power button

rocktale · 2011-01-02 19:32:19

Hi,

since the newest release of xbmc (10.0-2) using the suspend function via power button stopped working for me. With 10.0-1 everything was fine. I guess it has something to do with disabling HAL and using upower instead (I read that in the svn log). At first suspend from xbmc did not work at all but after I installed upower, I can suspend via xbmc's menu. However, pressing the power button does nothing. Any ideas? And does somebody know why they switched from HAL to upower anyway?

Another funny thing I've noticed is that even when I enable the suspend action for the power button in the xfce-power-manager (I've had it disabled before since xbmc had taken care of it), it doesn't work while xbmc is running. On the other hand, without xbmc running everything works as expected.

Kind regards,
Karsten

litemotiv · 2011-01-02 19:51:20

Cool thanks, i was missing upower, now i can suspend.

About your questions: hal is being deprecated as a whole, it is replaced by other frameworks. Did you check xbmc.log to see which command is issued when you press the power button of your remote?

rocktale · 2011-01-02 19:56:39

I should have stated this more precisely. I meant the power button of my computer case not the one on the remote. I do not have a remote (yet?).

litemotiv · 2011-01-02 20:14:36

Right, but does the xbmc log say anything when you press the power button?

rocktale · 2011-01-02 20:21:26

When I press the power button I get the following line in the debug log:

DEBUG: SDLKeyboard: scancode: 124, sym: 0, unicode: 0, modifier: 0

But nothing more...

litemotiv · 2011-01-02 20:27:28

Do you have pm-utils installed? Can you run pm-suspend while xbmc is running?

rocktale · 2011-01-02 20:34:28

I have pm-utils installed and pm-suspend works while xbmc is running. But I think that's not the problem since I can suspend by choosing the right menu entry within xbmc as well. But it seems as it does not react on the power button anymore.

litemotiv · 2011-01-02 20:37:21

rocktale wrote:

I have pm-utils installed and pm-suspend works while xbmc is running. But I think that's not the problem since I can suspend by choosing the right menu entry within xbmc as well. But it seems as it does not react on the power button anymore.

Yes, but in this case you might be able to trigger a normal acpi suspend. Have you checked with the logger in handler.sh if it is still receiving calls for the power button when xbmc is running?

rocktale · 2011-01-02 20:45:51

I do not have the acpid installed since xfce brings its own power-manager handling all the events and usually it works fine. With xbmc running however, it seems to ignore the power button. Anyway, I'd prefer xbmc's shutdown method over an external approach since it seems to me that xbmc "likes" it much better that way (especially when resuming).

litemotiv · 2011-01-02 20:55:09

It seems to be a more widespread problem, this is the most useful post i see about it at the moment: http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=49 … stcount=33

rocktale · 2011-01-02 21:01:24

Thank you for your patience and for the link. Well, it seems I'm stuck for the moment. I could use a custom build with HAL enabled or find some kind of workaround. Both options do not seem very appealing... :-/

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#1 2011-01-02 19:32:19

XBMC and suspend via power button

#2 2011-01-02 19:51:20

Re: XBMC and suspend via power button

#3 2011-01-02 19:56:39

Re: XBMC and suspend via power button

#4 2011-01-02 20:14:36

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#5 2011-01-02 20:21:26

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#6 2011-01-02 20:27:28

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