https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/40621 seems very related and has more information
BTW: I am using dapper, not Edgy or Feisty. Further, I found the following work around: Solution -------- I then looked in man acpid and in /var/log/acpid. It seems, by default acpi runs the following two scripts: Suspend to RAM: /etc/acpi/sleepbtn.sh Suspend to disk: /etc/acpi/hibernatebtn.sh They does not make what they are supposed to somehow, but hibernate.sh and sleep.sh works (se above). So, renaming those two and then symlinking them to hibernate.sh and sleep.sh instead just works :-) Code: ln -s /etc/acpi/sleep.sh /etc/acpi/sleepbtn.sh ln -s /etc/acpi/hibernate.sh /etc/acpi/hibernatebtn.sh Now Fn+F4 and Fn+F12 calls those scripts instead. The same perhaps also applies to the menue options in Klaptop, but since I still can not log in I don't know yet. Kdesktop_lock ------------- Then my second problem; it has a bug report: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126728 Kdesktopt_lock is preventing me form logging in again if I lock my screen, or uses hibernatin/sleep. But by going to a shell (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and, as root do killall kdekstop_lock I am able to be back where I left. Suspend to RAM then eems to do what it's supposed to, also from this menue, but suspend to disk just does exactly the same. Now where did hibernate go? klaptop_acpi_helper --hibernate and klaptop_acpi_helper --suspend says: Can't find /usr/sbin/pmi klaptop_acpi_helper --standby does nothing, says nothing. klaptop_acpi_helper --software-suspend says: Can't find /usr/sbin/hibernate I will have to take a closer look at this later, for now I can at least use the buttons, the menu I just will have to leave untouched until the mentioned KDE bug is solved, then both options will give me sleep--or maybe someone has fixed that too by then :-P -- Suspend and Hibernate are broken on an IBM Thinkpad R50e https://launchpad.net/bugs/47508 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs