On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 07:46:03PM +0200, Moisés Redondo wrote:
> Hello, I'm trying to make my laptop (Dell Precision M65) suspend and 
> hibernate 
> in gnome.
> 
> The problem is that I can't make gnome to use s2ram/s2disk commands 
> automatically. I can suspend and hibernate from a terminal but I can't do it 
> through gnome applets or the shutdown button (when it asks you if you want to 
> suspend,hibernate,reboot,cancel or shutdown).
> 
> I' ve read that tweaking the scripts in /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux could do 
> the trick, but it doesn't work. I've changed hal-system-power-suspend-linux 
> to use a custom script using s2ram but it simply ignores it. 
> 
> The only thing I can get is a nice popup error message.
> 
> I remember having done this before in other installations of lenny/etch and 
> being able to suspend/hibernate but now it is imposible. Is it that 
> gnome-power-manager doesn't uses hal-scripts anymore?
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> fray diógenes
> 

I think doing this with some manipulations in /etc/sudoers it will
work, so you can run these commands as normal user.  But since I haven't
already done something with this file I can't say how you have to do
this and if it would be the right way.

With the best greetings

Richard
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