On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:46 PM, fraydiógenes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> El Tuesday 09 September 2008 20:34:32 Richard Möhn escribió: > > 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 > > > > Thank you for your answer, but I've already done that. > > In fact, I've made a custom script with s2ram and put it > in /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-suspend-linux, > replacing the original one, but gnome seems to ignore it. I can run the > script > from the command line without problems but when I do it through the > button-applet it doesn't work. > > Regards > > fray diógenes > Did you check that your user is in the powerdev group? $ groups <username> Check that powerdev is in the list of groups. If not, $ sudo adduser <username> powerdev Log out and in again, and retry. Cheers, Cassiano Leal
