[ltp] X60s: Suspend to RAM - KDE v/s Gnome
   
    Atul Chitnis
     
    linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
       
    Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:26:55 +0530 (IST)
    
    
  
On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Florian Reitmeir wrote:
> The "gnome power manager" is sending a message via "dbus" to the "hald", "hald"
> decides on behalf of the installed software which suspend to use, here on my
> system (debian/unstable), the "hibernate" script  is called which handles the
> suspend/wakeup correct.
>
>
> How kde is handling the case i don't know. Maybe the above helps in finding
> out.
Your assessment was correct. klaptop (which FC6 uses by default under KDE) 
doesn't talk to HAL via DBUS (apart from a whole lot of other things).
The suggestion of using kpowersave instead of klaptop fixed the problem in 
one go.
Atul