I have a partial answer (to myself). On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:54:19PM +1000, Norman Gaywood wrote: > I have acpid running. I can see that hitting the suspend button on my > laptop triggers an event: > > [Fri May 21 13:34:44 2004] received event "button/sleep SBTN 00000080 00000001" ... > [Fri May 21 13:34:44 2004] completed event "button/sleep SBTN 00000080 00000002" > I can also see I need to put something in /etc/acpi/events/ to tell the > system to suspend on the event. > > What command should I use to suspend? You can tell what sleep options your ACPI BIOS supports with: "cat /proc/acpi/sleep". My Dell C600 laptop says: S0 S1 S3 S4 S4bios S5 An S3 is a software suspend I believe. This is what I think I had going before in RH8.0/RH9/FC1 when I hit the "suspend button". In the 2.6 kernel with ACPI, you can start a suspend by doing: echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep But that is not the whole story. X on my system does not handle this properly. Perhaps I need to do some sort of preparation before the echo 3? I'm beginning to get the feeling that suspend has not quite been finished in the 2.6 kernel. I wonder why (software) suspend worked reasonably well for me in the 2.4 kernel of RH8.0/9 and FC1? -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
