[ltp] T43 automatically suspends when idle on battery, then it doesn't wake up

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Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:22:17 -0500


On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 01:49:10PM -0500, Soren Harward wrote:
> I'm running Gentoo on a 2.5-year-old T43.  I used suspend2 hibernation
> (via Gentoo's suspend2-sources) for a while, but then decided to try
> to get suspend-to-ram working.  It works fine, except for one minor
> glitch.  If I leave the laptop running on battery for about 10-15
> minutes, it will automatically suspend.  And it won't wake up, whether
> I tap the power button, close the lid and reopen it, hit Fn+F4, or
> plug it in.  The little moon light on the monitor stays lit, but
> nothing else happens.  I finally have to hold down the power button
> for about 5 seconds to get the laptop to totally turn off, and then
> turn it back on again.  Any ideas what's causing the suspension, and
> how I can either prevent it or recover from it?  Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Soren Harward
When you turn the laptop back on, how much battery does it have left? It 
could be that your suspension script make the system suspend 
automatically when the battery is below a certain point, and this point 
is set too high.
Jiang
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