On Sun, 22 May 2005 disguised.jedi@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On 5/22/05, Charles E Taylor IV <tomalek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:If your laptop supports ACPI suspend, then why not just use that?/* I would, but I couldn't find a place that told me how to do that. Maybe I wasn't looking in the right place. */
echo mem > /sys/power/state
... should do it, though you might have to unload some modules and perhaps switch to a text terminal before suspending, depending on what kind of machine you have./* That works, but it doesn't come up after I power it back on. Maybe I'm just not waiting long enough for it. How would I go about unloading any troublesome modules that may be causing this? Are there any modules known to cause this problem? I'm not there right now, but I can send the output of `lsmod` tomorrow. Now, it's time for sleep.........
I was thinking that writing a shell script that unloaded the modules and then ran the command. Then I'd execute that shell script from the battery monitor applet. Is that a good thing to do????
That's the right idea. You can probably find hints about your particular laptop model (what did you say it was again?) at www.linux-on-laptops.com.
Take a look at the contents of /etc/acpi/ for a general clue about what you are looking for. ACPI is not very well documented, so searching and experimenting are the knowledge tools of choice here.
Thanks a lot!
-- Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
