[gpm] Problems Under FC5

[Chris Spencer <gmane 20 evilspam spamgourmet com>]

I've been using GPM under FC5 for several days now, and I've been having
several problems.

First, there doesn't appear to be anyway to manually initiate
hibernation, even though it's listed as an option under preferences.
Neither suspend or hibernate appear in the popup menu as shown in some
of your screen shots. Interestingly, the preferences don't list suspend,
even though Gnome's System->Shutdown offers this option (although it
doesn't seem to do anything).

Second, regardless of the timeout specified, the display and computer
are never seem to go to sleep. I may leave my machine idling for hours
and it won't hibernate. A few times, I have noticed the screensaver will
stop, the cpu fan ramp up to full blast, and the machine becomes
completely unresponsive, but I'm not sure if that's suspend/hibernation
in action or my kernel crashing. Pressing the power button causes a
reboot, but nothing else will "wake" it up.

This brings me to the third question, should I figure out how to
suspend, how would I resume? Should the computer resume if I press a
key, or do I have to press the power button?

Also, is it possible to set the "put computer to sleep" timeout to a
value greater than one hour? I often have my computer run long tasks
unattended for 2-3 hours at a time (like yum upgrade on a slow network
connection), but still would like it to hibernate if left idle for more
than 6 hours.

Sincerely,
Chris