Re: PowerManagement -- How to enter (and stay!) in a sleep state?
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 19:29, Wim De Smet wrote:
> 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
Try this:
http://sylvestre.ledru.info/howto/howto_acpi.php
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