• Registered: 2010-07-14
  • Posts: 2

Topic: power management

I'm a new crunchbang user (the Debian kind), and am having trouble with the power management features on my Toshiba netbook. The computer will go into suspend as directed, but when I try to wake it up again the screen stays black (although the computer is definitely on--I can feel the hard disk spinning and so on). When I set it to hibernate it apparently just turns the whole computer off--when I hit the power key to wake it up it runs all its startup scripts and any programs I had open are closed.

Any ideas?

  • Registered: 2010-03-13
  • Posts: 37

Re: power management

I had this issue earlier today on Lenny. And adding the following to the kernel line in grub worked for me:

acpi_sleep=s3_bios
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  • From: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
  • Registered: 2009-05-10
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Re: power management

I have a variant of your problem, riverdog03.  On my Toshiba NB305 netbook, closing the lid shuts it down, as does hibernate, but if I suspend, close the lid and then hit the power key, it starts up again.

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