Re: PowerManagement -- How to enter (and stay!) in a sleep state?
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 21:13:14 -0500, Spongebob <NadaSpam@adelphia.net> wrote:
> I have ACPI installed and apparently functioning (it turns my monitor off).
> I have a 2.6.10 kernel and KDE 3.3
>
> In windows, I have a little set of toolbar buttons that include:
> power off monitor
> sleep (power off disks and monitor)
> hibernate (disks and monitor off, idle processor at 1/8 speed, fan off)
>
> Is there a ready-made equivalent for linux?
> The KDE Control Center only powers off the monitor.
>
> If not, are there scripts to do this?
>
> I tried something like
> echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep
> It does it, but then immediately comes back on.
There is a "hibernate" package in debian that supposedly does software
suspend. You apparently need to patch your kernel to use it so I don't
know if that's what you want. It's all still a bit touch-and-go it
seems, but it might work for you.
greets,
Wim
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