Re: [gpm] Problems Under FC5

["Richard Hughes" <hughsient gmail com>]

On 12/05/06, Chris Spencer <gmane 20 evilspam spamgourmet com> wrote:
> I've been using GPM under FC5 for several days now, and I've been having
> several problems.

It should work well with FC5, so apologies.

> 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).

Can you try some of the stuff (and post as a reply pls) in
http://live.gnome.org/GnomePowerManager/Faq#head-cef6f771faa9dffbba8dee0ebbc1ff8609cade11
please.

> 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.

I'm thinking that g-p-m is either not started, or maybe the gconf
stuff wasn't installed correctly. When you've logged in, is the
gnome-power-manager process running?

> 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?

Depends on your laptop IIRC, but my laptop can resume from pressing
the keyboard for a few seconds, or pressing the power button, or evem
just opening the lid. What make/model?

> 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.

No, as the slider only goes up to 1 hour. For stuff that runs
unattented, we should bugzilla the product to use the g-p-m inhibit
interface when a task starts.

See http://live.gnome.org/GnomePowerManager/Faq#head-ec399a12ba6d1a8461e5d6af7394d9560a838bc4
for more details. If yum, for instance, used this interface then it
would all just work without setting over-long time-outs.

> Sincerely,

Hope some of that helps,

Richard.