Possible reasons for Sleep/Hibernate not working

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 14.09.08 04:04:35, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> 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.

Indeed I didn't. However I've noticed last night that while the sleep
option in the menu doesn't do anything, the option on the "shutdown
dialog" does work here.

Even after installing acpid (which was a tad bit problematic, as hal
already occupied /proc/acpi/event) the two options in kickoff don't work
here, while the ones from the drop-down in the logout dialog do work.

Andreas
 
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