I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop PC, and I've found that I only have the option to hibernate or power off, and not sleep! Is this normal? A motherboard/BIOS issue? Google doesn't show up anything useful. And I have 12 GB of RAM so hibernating is slow, and after hibernating it doesn't come back anyway. :-P
Kevin
I am running 12.04 with KDE and have all the normal options. Sleep seems to work about 95% of the time.
On 07/06/12 21:28, Kevin McGregor wrote:
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop PC, and I've found that I only have the option to hibernate or power off, and not sleep! Is this normal? A motherboard/BIOS issue? Google doesn't show up anything useful. And I have 12 GB of RAM so hibernating is slow, and after hibernating it doesn't come back anyway. :-P
Kevin
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I have 12.04 Xubuntu on my Lenovo T510 laptop. I have Suspend, and it works about 50% of the time.
Gerald
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From: "Kevin McGregor" kevin.a.mcgregor@gmail.com To: "Continuation of Round Table discussion" roundtable@muug.mb.ca Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 9:28:23 PM Subject: [RndTbl] Ubuntu sleep?
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop PC, and I've found that I only have the option to hibernate or power off, and not sleep! Is this normal? A motherboard/BIOS issue? Google doesn't show up anything useful. And I have 12 GB of RAM so hibernating is slow, and after hibernating it doesn't come back anyway. :-P
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I'm on straight 12.04 with a Thinkpad w520 - closing the lid is 100% effective for me.
Rob
Gr. It worked fine on the exact same machine with Windows 7. No mention of it in the forums I've checked so far.
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Robert Keizer robert@keizer.ca wrote:
I'm on straight 12.04 with a Thinkpad w520 - closing the lid is 100% effective for me.
Rob
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Have you tried `sudo pm-suspend'? I don't have ubuntu installed, but it might be easier to debug the issue from the command line.
If the pm-utils commands work, you at least have a workaround for the missing menu item :-)
Peter
On 06/08/2012 09:48 AM, Kevin McGregor wrote:
Gr. It worked fine on the exact same machine with Windows 7. No mention of it in the forums I've checked so far.
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Robert Keizer <robert@keizer.ca mailto:robert@keizer.ca> wrote:
I'm on straight 12.04 with a Thinkpad w520 - closing the lid is 100% effective for me. Rob
On June 7, 2012 09:28:23 PM Kevin McGregor wrote:
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop PC, and I've found that I only have the option to hibernate or power off, and not sleep! Is this normal?
I think it's supposed to be the other way around. The discussion is at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-desktop- privileges/+bug/812394
(I use Kubuntu 12.04, and get all of the options. Hibernate fails about a third of the time on my HP 8440p, and isn't noticably faster than booting from scratch.)
Gak. Okay, I now have a clearer understanding of what's going on.
There is in fact a "suspend" item in the menu. When I use that, I get the same result as "sudo pm-suspend": - Screen blanks - All fans keep running - Monitor does not go into power-save mode - Nothing will "wake" the computer - Scroll/Caps/Num lock keys have no effect on keyboard LEDs; Num Lock light is stuck on, others stay off
So I have to power down the PC (i.e. hold down the power button several seconds).
Another detail: I have VMware Workstation Tech Preview March 2012 installed. Maybe that's interfering with sleeping. I don't think I tried Suspend before installing VMware, but I don't remember.
I still think they should have called it "Sleep" instead of "Suspend".
Kevin
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Glen Ditchfield GJDitchfield@acm.orgwrote:
On June 7, 2012 09:28:23 PM Kevin McGregor wrote:
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop PC, and I've found that I only have the option to hibernate or power off, and not sleep! Is this normal?
I think it's supposed to be the other way around. The discussion is at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-desktop- privileges/+bug/812394
(I use Kubuntu 12.04, and get all of the options. Hibernate fails about a third of the time on my HP 8440p, and isn't noticably faster than booting from scratch.) _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list Roundtable@muug.mb.ca http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable
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