> I believe that has no influence on my main problematic case:
> 1- the user hits the power-button because (s)he wants to hibernate the
>machine.
> 2- each and every user logged in with Gnome gets to process the request via
>its own gnome-power-manager, isn't it wonderful?
Just to clarify:
George wrote:
Also, try Ubuntu or SUSE, both are easier to get susp...
24 months ago I got a Thinkpad-t42 and had problems with susp>disk or
>ramsing Debian (also problems with wireless) so I went to SUSE which
did all well.
I also then tried UBUNTU which also did OK. Several months later
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 00:31 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I believe that has no influence on my main problematic case:
> 1- the user hits the power-button because (s)he wants to hibernate the
>machine.
I agree, unless you remove the switch, there's nothing you can do to
prevent the user from p
>> > g-p-m is basically a tool for single-user systems, like laptops (usually
>> > are).
> [..]
>> > On multi-user systems you're better off not installing it if possile,
> I guess you don't wan't to remove the g-p-m feature, you just want to
> manage it. i.e. authorized user can still hibernate th
On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 00:35 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > g-p-m is basically a tool for single-user systems, like laptops (usually
> > are).
[..]
> > On multi-user systems you're better off not installing it if possile,
I guess you don't wan't to remove the g-p-m feature, you just want to
manage
>> And of course gnome-power-manager is fundamentally flawed because the
>> issues it tries to deal with are at least as much system-wide as they are
>> specific to a given Gnome session: when I have several users logged in,
>> I don't want each one of their gnome-power-manager to react to
>> ACPI
list-debian-laptop wrote:
Hello all,
previously a Fedora User, I found out that VMWare does not support it,
so I switched to Debian and installed the Etch, network install from
business card cdrom.
Check /etc/fstab:
/dev/ noneswap sw,resume 0 0
Above not well
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 10:09 +0200, list-debian-laptop wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 20:19 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > If the two that you tried did not work let me recommend the s2ram and
> > s2disk alternatives. It has a table of known workarounds for some
> > laptops and may work using one of
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:09:10PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> And of course gnome-power-manager is fundamentally flawed because the issues
> it tries to deal with are at least as much system-wide as they are specific
> to a given Gnome session: when I have several users logged in, I don't want
> Yes, I used the gnome-power-manager applet.
> Thanks to Michael who also pointed me to the hibernate script, I'm able
> now to hibernate, but need to access it as root via a terminal. My
> preference though, is to access it through the applet.
This whole situation is a real big mess.
The rela
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:10:10 +0200, list-debian-laptop wrote:
> :~# s2ram
> Machine is unknown.
> This machine can be identified by:
> sys_vendor = "ASUSTeK Computer Inc."
On my Asus Z37E I can suspend the laptop just by closing the lid.
Check that you have the "asus_laptop" kernel module l
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 20:19 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> list-debian-laptop wrote:
> > If I try to suspend, the screen locker comes on, and after I type my
> > password, it says:
> > "Suspend Problem
> > Your computer failed to suspend. Check the PAQ page for common
> > problems."
> >
> > Same wit
Michael, thanks for your great suggestion, hibernate works now.
I am thinking about posting a bug report to bugzilla.gnome.org, as the
gnome-power-manager FAQ suggests.
Do you think the hibernate script can be associated to the hibernate
command in the gnome-power-manager?
How about suspend?
Than
list-debian-laptop wrote:
> If I try to suspend, the screen locker comes on, and after I type my
> password, it says:
> "Suspend Problem
> Your computer failed to suspend. Check the PAQ page for common
> problems."
>
> Same with trying to hibernate:
> "Hibernate Problem
> HAL failed to hibernate.
Hello all,
previously a Fedora User, I found out that VMWare does not support it,
so I switched to Debian and installed the Etch, network install from
business card cdrom.
If I try to suspend, the screen locker comes on, and after I type my
password, it says:
"Suspend Problem
Your computer failed
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