Am Mittwoch 31 Oktober 2007 04:42:34 schrieb John E. Perry:
Thinking I'd messed up the KPowersave configuration somehow, I opened it to reconfigure it. _Everything_ is now grayed out. I can't do anything. Recalling the recent comment that 10.3 uses PM, I started reading up to try fixing things.
Well, the pm-utils are only used to go into (and later restore from) powersaving mode (s2ram or s2disk), but not for activating them. If you are using kpowersave, it will further use hal which will forward the request via triggering pm-utils.
In summary, /etc/pm/config.d, sleep,d, and power.d are all empty. I can't find any documentation to tell me what to put into them. There's a lot of text about bash scripts, being careful not to touch /usr/lib/pm, etc. Nothing about what to put into /etc/pm/*.
Have you had a look at http://en.opensuse.org/Pm-utils ? (in regards of pm-utils this is the documentation you probably were looking for)
http://en.opensuse.org/S2ram doesn't help at any level I can understand; in fact, running the advised s2ram --test says my machine is not supported. en.opensuse.org/Projects_KPowersave is even less help.
As long as you only want to use suspend to disk this is fine, you don't need s2ram-support to be able to use suspend to disk.
I looked at /var/log/pm-suspend.log, and all I can confidently understand is that it went to hibernation at 15:07 Saturday, which more or less matches my recollection. The list of steps it executed seemed to be in the correct order as far as I can see. This seems to me to imply that it had instruction from somewhere, but I can't find any that I can understand, unless it's the defaults in /usr/lib/pm (which I don't really understand).
Those instructions and setting will only tell what to do on s2disk, but not when to activate it.
I really would like to get my laptop's powersave working correctly again. I have to go on a long trip at the end of November, and I don't want my battery life shortened between stops at a power source.
Help?
I am not quite sure i understand your problem regarding the suspend triggering. First i thought you were having the problem that nothing is triggered at all, but now i have the impression that you try to say you had a suspend to disk without any obvious reasons. But regarding the all-greyed-out kpowersave i would guess there is a problem with the services it depends on (dbus, hal, policykit). Have you tried restarting those? Frank -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org