dealing with states of drowsiness, FC12, netbook

[jack craig]

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 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
>    

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