Re: Awakening from suspend-to-mem
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Andrew McMillan wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 23:01 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
>>
>> I don't understand why you people are taking so much of pain automating a
>> lot of stuff using scripts.
>> I presume most notebook users would be using GUI on it (Probably KDE).
>>
>> KDE's klaptopdaemon is excellent in handling all this suspend/resume
>> stuff for you. I've been using it for months now without any problem.
>
> I seriously doubt the "Probably KDE" comment! I have a Gnome desktop
> myself, and AFAICS the two are roughly equal in popularity :-)
>
GNOME too might be having something similar.
> The reason I have a script for suspend / resume is to ensure a couple of
> things happen:
>
> 1) xscreensaver locks my screen on suspend. For security reasons I
> don't want my login session to be resumable if someone steals my laptop
> while it is suspended.
>
klaptopdaemon has the option "Lock & Suspend", "Suspend", "Lock &
Hibernate", "Hibernate"
> 3) From time to time there have been issues with suspend / resume and
> either alsa or hotplug, and I have found it useful to script around
> these issues.
>
I'm lucky enough to not have faced any such problem :-)
> Also, if you got the impression that those scripts are actually run by
> hand, you are being naive...
>
I don't agree. If there's something already ready why try doing kiddie
stuff. If you still are tempted you can download the klaptopdaemon sources
and patch it to your requirements. I find it feature comprehensive.
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>
> /etc/acpi/events/lid:
> # This is called when the user closes the lid
> event=button[ /]lid
> action=/etc/acpi/suspend_to_ram.sh
>
I disabled it in acpid. This is handled well in klaptopdaemon.
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>
> /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn:
> # /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn
> # This is called when the user presses the power button and calls
> # /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh for further processing.
>
> # Optionally you can specify the placeholder %e. It will pass
> # through the whole kernel event message to the program you've
> # specified.
>
> event=button[ /]power
> action=/etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh
>
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>
I hope you might have disabled the functionality of the powerbtn too
> Which is all only mildly modified from the default stuff installed by
> the acpid package.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew McMillan.
>
Regards,
rrs
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