dealing with states of drowsiness, FC12, netbook

[Chris Rouch]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:11 PM, jack craig <jcraig at 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#Power_States

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