Hi Folks,
I admit to being new to mobile computers, laptops, netbooks, etc.
there are more states on these systems that a desktop usually uses, including sleep and hibernate.
is there an URL somewhere that will tell me how to recognize these different states and return my netbook to normal operating mode once the state of drowsiness is established?
i fire up my asus netbook in the am and when i don't use it for an hr or so, it goes to sleep (or maybe hibernate) mode. the power button light is still on.
but the only control i get is pressing and holding the power button until i get a shutdown.
would some kind soul point me to a state managment URL?
tia, jackc...
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:11 PM, jack craig jcraig@extraview.com wrote:
Hi Folks,
I admit to being new to mobile computers, laptops, netbooks, etc.
there are more states on these systems that a desktop usually uses, including sleep and hibernate.
is there an URL somewhere that will tell me how to recognize these different states and return my netbook to normal operating mode once the state of drowsiness is established?
i fire up my asus netbook in the am and when i don't use it for an hr or so, it goes to sleep (or maybe hibernate) mode. the power button light is still on.
but the only control i get is pressing and holding the power button until i get a shutdown.
would some kind soul point me to a state managment URL?
This page describes the acpi power states:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface#Powe...
On my hp laptop, pressing the power button once will cause it to wake up again. On my old asus laptop (running f11 i think) this didn't work properly, though it would try to resume. If you don't want it to hibernate at all, you need to change the power profile. For kde this under the advancded tab of the system settings.
HTH,
Chris
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 15:22 +0200, Chris Rouch wrote:
On my hp laptop, pressing the power button once will cause it to wake up again. On my old asus laptop (running f11 i think) this didn't work properly, though it would try to resume.
On my Asus laptop, pressing any key would wake up from a suspend to RAM, as the computer isn't completely shut down in that mode. If you had to press the power button, then there's some problem with hibernating on that computer. Suspend to disc would require pressing the power button to resume, as the computer is actually turned off in that suspension mode.
I needed the closed-source RPM Fusion packaged NVidia drivers for resuming to work. I can't remember if that was just for suspend to ram, or for suspend to disc, as well. I don't want to remove it just to test, now.
Ah! there Is a kind soul on this list, Thx Chris, ...
On 04/15/2010 06:22 AM, Chris Rouch wrote:
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:11 PM, jack craigjcraig@extraview.com wrote:
Hi Folks,
I admit to being new to mobile computers, laptops, netbooks, etc.
there are more states on these systems that a desktop usually uses, including sleep and hibernate.
is there an URL somewhere that will tell me how to recognize these different states and return my netbook to normal operating mode once the state of drowsiness is established?
i fire up my asus netbook in the am and when i don't use it for an hr or so, it goes to sleep (or maybe hibernate) mode. the power button light is still on.
but the only control i get is pressing and holding the power button until i get a shutdown.
would some kind soul point me to a state managment URL?
This page describes the acpi power states:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface#Powe...
On my hp laptop, pressing the power button once will cause it to wake up again. On my old asus laptop (running f11 i think) this didn't work properly, though it would try to resume. If you don't want it to hibernate at all, you need to change the power profile. For kde this under the advancded tab of the system settings.
HTH,
Chris
Once upon a time, Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au said:
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 15:22 +0200, Chris Rouch wrote:
On my hp laptop, pressing the power button once will cause it to wake up again. On my old asus laptop (running f11 i think) this didn't work properly, though it would try to resume.
On my Asus laptop, pressing any key would wake up from a suspend to RAM, as the computer isn't completely shut down in that mode.
That depends. My Lenovo Thinkpad wakes up from suspend if you open the lid or (if you suspended with the lid open) when you hit the power button. The keyboard doesn't wake it up.
On my desktop at home (with a USB keyboard), I have configured the BIOS to wake on USB, and I have to change /proc/acpi/wakeup for Linux to leave USB in a state where it can be used to wake up the system (don't know if there is a defined way to do this automatically; I just do it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local).
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 13:16 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
On my desktop at home (with a USB keyboard), I have configured the BIOS to wake on USB
On some computers, some of the ports are powered off when suspended/hibernated/shutdown, while others are not. It may be hard configured, BIOS configured, or have jumpers on the board. I had one board that you changed jumpers around to determine which ports stayed alive, when the computer was dormant. There were jumpers for the USB ports, and one or two others (ethernet, and PS/2).
Without that configuration, the peripheral was dead when the computer was dormant, so it wouldn't be possible to wake it up through the peripheral (whatever it was, keyboard, mouse, something else...).
Just another thing for people to check for when diagnosing resuming.
On 04/15/2010 02:30 PM, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 13:16 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
On my desktop at home (with a USB keyboard), I have configured the BIOS to wake on USB
On some computers, some of the ports are powered off when suspended/hibernated/shutdown, while others are not. It may be hard configured, BIOS configured, or have jumpers on the board. I had one board that you changed jumpers around to determine which ports stayed alive, when the computer was dormant. There were jumpers for the USB ports, and one or two others (ethernet, and PS/2).
Without that configuration, the peripheral was dead when the computer was dormant, so it wouldn't be possible to wake it up through the peripheral (whatever it was, keyboard, mouse, something else...).
Just another thing for people to check for when diagnosing resuming.
excellent feedback Tim, thx!!