[ltp] Re: Fn-F12 ignored by gnome-power-manager

[Axel Braun]

Frédéric Boiteux wrote:

>   I've recently upgraded my thinkpad X31 from Debian Lenny to Squeeze,
> and have some hard times (mostly with graphic) ; I've noted that Fn-F12
> don't do anything anymore, whereas it worked [so] well before. As this
> kind of problem isn't new, I dig in the list and re-read the Thinkwiki
> article, but I'm a bit lost :-(
> 
>   I noted that ACPI and HAL see the F12 pression : 'lshal -m' tells :
> platform_thinkpad_acpi_logicaldev_input condition ButtonPressed =
> hibernate and 'apci_listen' tells :
> button/suspend SUSP 00000080 00000000
> but nothing happens (I have a Gnome destktop with gnome-power-manager
> running).

Indeed, the same is under KDE already since some time ( I think it came with 
the 4.x release). In KDE you have a hibernate function in the power 
management - that works at least

Cheers
axel

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