Re: [gpm] How can I make my laptop suspend after 1 hour then hibernate after 2 hours?

["Jason Spiro" <jasonspiro4 gmail com>]

2007/6/29, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 15:53 -0600, Jason Spiro wrote:
> > How can I make my laptop suspend after 1 hour of inactivity then
> > hibernate 2 hours after it suspends?
>
> We have the API for that in place already. The HAL Suspend(i) method
> takes an argument of the number of seconds to wake up in. Unfortunately,
> we don't get any indication if the wake-up was because we woke up from
> the timeout or woke up from another event, e.g. lid open.
>
> The biggest problem is that few BIOS's support this

My Windows laptop's BIOS seems to support the feature I'm requesting
fine; that laptop runs Windows.  My FreeBSD laptop?  I dunno; I don't
use power management on that laptop.[1]

> and the kernel
> interface for the wakeup time is absolutely abhorrent. The interface is
> being improved IIRC, but it remains that some hardware just doesn't
> work.

:-(

> Work in this area would be great, in fact, if you can do some research
> in to the new interface for wakeup events I can hack this into the hal
> scripts for testing.

What information would you like me to find out for you?

Cheers,
Jason

[1] I run FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE with GNOME.  I once tried IIRC the
"hibernate" button in GDM but it basically crashed the PC.  I've never
tried any power management features since.  I guess the moral is this:
all it can take is one bad power management experience to discourage
them from using power management in the future :)

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