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I want to configure my Debian desktop to suspend after a certain interval. But I can't find any power management options in the menus. Anyone know how?...
- 09-10-2005 #1Linux User
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Power Management
I want to configure my Debian desktop to suspend after a certain interval. But I can't find any power management options in the menus. Anyone know how?
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- 09-10-2005 #2Linux Newbie
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I'm having the same problem. I used apt-get to download the acpid and stuff, but haven't really messed with configuration, so it's not really suspending, just going to screensaver. I need some help too.
- 09-12-2005 #3Linux User
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simply an echo...
Your system (ACPI compatible) should suspend/standby echoing a state string to the file /sys/power/state...
# cat /sys/power/state
standby mem disk
These are states available on my computer... you can echo one of these values... (mem suspend to RAM, disk suspend to disk).
# echo "disk" > /sys/power/state
Kernel should be configured correctly for suspend to disk method (you have to specify the swap partition to use when freezing, wich should large at least how many RAM you use actually).
You can use hibernate package to simplify the suspend process... but I've never used it!
To suspend after a certain intervall... you may use cron scripts but I don't know how measure time intervall... not enought particoulars!
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