Possible reasons for Sleep/Hibernate not working

[Thomas Fjellstrom]

On Saturday 13 September 2008, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just installed kde4 on my new laptop and I'm seeing both hibernate and
> sleep are "grayed" out and nothing happens when I click on them - in the
> menu that is.
>
> I'm wondering what I could be missing to enable those two, configuring
> kdebase didn't "complain" about any missing optional packages and I'm a
> bit unsure where to start looking for the right switch.
>
> Please CC me on replies as I'm not subscribed to this list (anymore) and
> already sorry for posting a kind-of-a-user question here - but there's
> no plasma-user yet unfortunately. (and kde list is far too crowded for
> me)
>
> Andreas

Do you have acpid installed? I'm not sure if thats all thats needed though, 
but its one major part.

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Thomas Fjellstrom
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