Laptop waking up in bag

2008-06-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
My Dell Inspiron laptop has a terrible habit of waking up from RAM suspension inside my bag. I do not know if it is detecting a signal from the lid switch or from the power button (these are the only two ways that I know of to wake the laptop from RAM suspension). How can I: 1) Find out what ACPI e

X not starting from time to time

2008-06-29 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Hi guys, I'm having a problem with my X server at boot. I often have to reboot once or twice since X is not starting properly and the screen goes dark. I've posted the diff output of the log files here: http://freenet-homepage.de/fzimbi/stuff/xorg.log.diff To me it looks as if x startup stops afte

Re: Laptop waking up in bag

2008-06-29 Thread Paolo
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 03:28:28PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 1) Find out what ACPI event (lid switch or power button) caused the > system to wake? keep acpi_listen running in a terminal > 2) Find out how much time the laptop has been running since wake (not > uptime, which is the time from boo

Re: X not starting from time to time

2008-06-29 Thread Paolo
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 02:32:52PM +0200, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > I'm running sid on an Asus M6N with latest kernel selfcompiled kernel > based on 2.6.25-g sources, proprietary fglrx 8.50.3 and xorg-server try Xorg's ATI or VESA drivers, if they work reliably, bugger is that fglrx -> then bug A

Re: Laptop waking up in bag

2008-06-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/29 Paolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 03:28:28PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> 1) Find out what ACPI event (lid switch or power button) caused the >> system to wake? > > keep acpi_listen running in a terminal > Thanks. >> 2) Find out how much time the laptop has been run

Re: Laptop waking up in bag

2008-06-29 Thread Heiner Markert
Maybe your laptop wakes up if the battery becomes empty, in order to take some action to save your data? Regards Heiner Am Sonntag, 29. Juni 2008 14:28:28 schrieb Dotan Cohen: > My Dell Inspiron laptop has a terrible habit of waking up from RAM > suspension inside my bag. I do not know if it is

Re: Laptop waking up in bag

2008-06-29 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/29 Heiner Markert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Maybe your laptop wakes up if the battery becomes empty, in order to take some > action to save your data? > > Regards > Heiner > Interesting thought, but no, it wakes on a full charge as well as on a partial charge. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what

Re: Laptop waking up in bag

2008-06-29 Thread Paolo
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 05:30:16PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > > Well, I'd rather avoid playing with system files. Is there a trigger > that I can use to run a script when the laptop wakes? I could run a same as above then, wrap acpi_listen in a script, use option -c to make it yield on 1 eve