Florian Kulzer wrote:
If you have powersaved installed (see "dpkg -l powersaved") then you can
configure it using the files in /etc/powersave. The default for the
power button is set up in "events" as EVENT_BUTTON_POWER="ignore".
>> I noticed as well than when I press the power button (not suspending
here)
I'm shown the gnome window asking what do I want to do, but this
dissapears before I can do anything and the computer shuts down.
I would first try to comment out the line
/sbin/shutdown -h now "Power button pressed"
This should allow you to test if the system comes back from suspend at
all. If this works then you can either decide that you don't mind if the
power button can no longer be used to shut down the system, or you have
to change powerbtn.sh so that it can tell the difference between "power
button was pressed to wake me up from suspend" and "power button was
pressed because the user wants to shut me down".
I did the following: I changed hibernate.conf so that
touch /tmp/powerbtn_flag_hibernate
is executed before the system suspends. Then I added this line before
all the other commands in powerbtn.sh:
[ -e /tmp/powerbtn_flag_hibernate ] && rm -f
/tmp/powerbtn_flag_hibernate && exit 0
Hello, thanks a lot for the suggestions, they made me think.
I checked out some things:
1. powersaved is not installed in my system, and I don't want to install
it to avoid adding more variables to the problem--unless somebody tells
me this is a bad idea.
2. Commenting out of /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh the line which calls for
shutdown has the effect of allowing the gnome confirmation window to
stay in place and not just dissapear in half a second. The computer
still does not come back to life after suspending to RAM, though.
3. If I issue s2ram from the shell, the machine suspends and wakes up
normally by pressing the power button. However:
4. Changing, as previously said, /etc/acpi/sleep.sh from
action=/etc/acpi/sleep.sh to
action=/etc/acpi/s2ram
makes the system go to suspend and hanging when pressing the power
button. I noticed the screen showed different lines when suspending, so:
5. I commented out the other lines in /etc/acpi/sleep.sh and included
the following one:
action=/usr/bin/glxgears
This, unsurprisingly, failed to call the gears and it went to suspend
hanging the machine afterwards. I then tried to:
6. Kill gnome-power-manager and press the sleep button, and that did the
trick--or a useless shortcut to test your fps. Changing glxgears for
s2ram makes the machine "suspendable". It seems that the
gnome-power-manager daemon calls hibernate, for the behaviour it's the
same when suspending with the button than when calling hibernate
manually (it hangs the same way, showing the same things before
blanking the screen).
My question here is whether it's a good idea to get rid of
gnome-power-manager and suspend the machine this way or maybe I should
try something else with hibernate.conf. I would like to be able to tell
the laptop to sleep after a given inactivity time, which I don't know
whether it's possible without the gnome thing.